Virginie
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From Latin Virginia, related to virgo, meaning “virgin/maiden”
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/viʁʒini/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Virginie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country, where it is the 62nd most common given name.
- FRFrance≈1 in 392(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 825
- CMCameroon≈1 in 1.4K
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 396 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 392 (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Latin Virginia, related to virgo, meaning “virgin/maiden”.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Virginie 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #62 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 392 | 171K | Virginie | 396 |
| CM Cameroon | #117 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Virginie | 20 |
| BE Belgium | #89 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 825 | 6 | Virginie | 144 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | #476 | ≈7,800 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 1 | Virginie | 14 |
| CH Switzerland | #524 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Virginie | 94 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 918 | 1 in 19K | 847 | Virginie | 36 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Virginie 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.
From Latin. See ) Virginia in main dictionary.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In French, Virginia (a state of the United States)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, Même si le tabac de Virginie est cultivé, aujourd’hui, dans le monde entier, on conserve son appellation initiale de virginie.
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
In French, Du latin virgo, « vierge ». Fête/saint non indiqué.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
In French, Du latin virgo, « vierge ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
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)
- Virginie Viardb. 1962FRFrench stylist and costume designer
- Virginie Despentesb. 1969FRFrench writer and film director
- Virginie Sillab. 1972FRFrench film producer
- Virginie Hocqb. 1975BEBelgium actress
- Virginie Ledoyenb. 1976FRFrench actress and model
- Coralie Fargeatb. 1976FRnot in their usual nameFrench filmmaker
- Virginie Efirab. 1977BEBelgian and French actress and television presenter
- Virginie Dedieub. 1979FRFrench synchronized swimmer
- Virginie Arnoldb. 1979FRarcher
- Virginie Razzanob. 1983FRFrench tennis player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 60 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2022 | 171K | #3,585 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 847 | #1,432 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 279 | #4,519 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 71 | #5,431 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2010 | 6 | #1,322 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #957 |
| FR France | Dictionnaire Généalogique des Prénoms (Athias, 2007) | — | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | Babynamen — Lijst met meer dan 22.000 namen (Amelia King, 2020) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
| FR France | Le Grand Guide des Prénoms | — | — | — |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | WGND 2.0 — DR Congo given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Virginie mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin Virginia, related to virgo, meaning “virgin/maiden”. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- Is Virginie a male or female name?
- Virginie is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How do you pronounce Virginie?
- A machine transcription gives /viʁʒini/ (IPA) for French.
- What are other forms of the name Virginie?
- In the etymology graph, Gina, Ginger and Ginny are forms of the same name in other languages; Gigi is a recorded short or pet form.
- In which country does Virginie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 173 thousand people named Virginie in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled virginie.
- How common is the name Virginie?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 918 people named Virginie, about 1 in 19 thousand residents.
- How common is Virginie compared with other names?
- In France, Virginie is the 62nd most common given name of 754,146 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Virginie?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/virginieThe 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), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Virginie” — the 62nd most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.