Virginia
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Virginia is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Virginia (a state of the United States).
- TLTimor-Leste≈1 in 578(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 930
- USUnited States1 in 1.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 564 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 566 (inferred from the name graph)
286,258 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Greece, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Virgínia in PT Portugal, וירגיניה in IT Italy and Βιργινια in GR Greece.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Virginia (a state of the United States)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Virginia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 286,258 | 1 in 1.2K | 286K | Virginia | 564 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈77,000 est. | ≈1 in 812 | 573 | וירגיניה | 136 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈71,000 est. | ≈1 in 930 | 26 | Virginia | 214 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈58,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Virginia | 33 |
| ES Spain | — | 43,146 | 1 in 1.2K | 44K | Virginia | 201 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 917 | 2 | Virginia | 227 |
| GR Greece | — | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 566 | 14 | Βιργινια | 81 |
| PT Portugal | #858 | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | listed | Virgínia | 71 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 5,501 | 1 in 927 | 5.5K | — | 55 |
| TL Timor-Leste | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 578 | — | Virginia | 6 |
286,258 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Virginia is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Virginia är ett latinskt namn bildat till släktnamnet Virginius (< Verginius) med oviss härledning. Möjligen sammanhänger detta namn med latinets virgo ’jungfru’. I den rikssvenska almanackan 8 december. I gamla almanackor stod det Marie avlelse på detta datum, och när namnkommittén 1901 utmönstrade ett antal Maria-dagar, fick Virginia vara en lämplig ersättning på denna dag.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In English, state, US; pers. name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In French, Du latin virgo, « vierge ». Fête/saint non indiqué.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In German, ) Virginie: weibl. Vom., der au f den römischen
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Vergine
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Virginia Woolfb. 1882GBEnglish modernist writer (1882–1941)
- Bess Trumanb. 1885USnot in their usual nameFirst Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953
- Virginia Cherrillb. 1908USAmerican actress (1908–1996)
- Virginia Apgarb. 1909USAmerican obstetrical anesthesiologist (1909-1974)
- Helen Hortonb. 1923USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (1923–2007)
- Gena Rowlandsb. 1930USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (1930–2024)
- Virginia Bellb. 1932USAmerican actress and burlesque dancer (1932–2010)
- Virginia Madsenb. 1961USAmerican actress
- Virginia Raggib. 1978ITItalian politician (1978)
- Laura Fernández Delgadob. 1986CRnot in their usual namePresident of Costa Rica since 2026
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 105 sources across 56 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 286K | #182 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 44K | #105 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 43K | #192 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 5.5K | #130 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 578 | #40,749 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 573 | #68 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 572 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 426 | #49,365 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 418 | #47,654 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 302 | #182 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 8 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 7 | #143,513 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Virginia mean, and where does it come from?
- Virginia (a state of the United States) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Virginia have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 286 thousand people named Virginia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled virginia.
- How common is the name Virginia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 286,258 people named Virginia in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Virginia compared with other names?
- In Portugal, Virginia is the 858th most common given name of 19,352 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/virginiaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Virginia” — the 858th most common given name in Portugal. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.