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Virginia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 572 in 2025. Its best rank was #6 in 1921.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #6 in 1921; #526 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Virginia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#526 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1921, at #6.
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Virginia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 572 girls in 2025. Peak: #6 in 1921 · most girls in one year: 19,144 (1922).
In 2025, 572 US girls were named Virginia, making it the 526th most common girls’ name of the year, down 19 places from #507 in 2024. That is 35 fewer than the 607 girls named Virginia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #6, reached in 1921. The most girls given the name in a single year was 19,144, in 1922. For comparison, it was #523 in 2015 and #43 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Virginia in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 213 babies with the name. In all, 654,968 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 170,037 babies named Virginia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,733 US girls were named Virginia; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 612. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,810 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Virginia ranked highest in Virginia in 2025, at #136 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Verginia, Virginio and Virginie are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Ginger, Ginny, Jane, Jennie and Virgy.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Verginia (171), Virginio (96), Virginie (68), Virginnia (16), Virgini (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 17 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 56 | #136 | #197 |
| Maine | 6 | #206 | — |
| South Carolina | 21 | #243 | #183 |
| Alabama | 20 | #244 | #254 |
| Tennessee | 30 | #261 | #271 |
| Georgia | 38 | #267 | #386 |
| Connecticut | 10 | #321 | #498 |
| Idaho | 7 | #350 | #311 |
| Mississippi | 8 | #381 | #362 |
| Iowa | 9 | #388 | — |
| Massachusetts | 15 | #394 | #616 |
| North Carolina | 28 | #404 | #359 |
| Michigan | 22 | #405 | #773 |
| Kentucky | 10 | #442 | #459 |
| Ohio | 22 | #503 | #536 |
| Maryland | 11 | #507 | #525 |
| Missouri | 12 | #514 | #558 |
| Washington | 13 | #540 | #695 |
| Kansas | 6 | #572 | #358 |
| Indiana | 12 | #575 | #443 |
| Wisconsin | 8 | #607 | #843 |
| Colorado | 9 | #630 | #568 |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #687 | #548 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #692 | — |
| Texas | 44 | #699 | #611 |
| Utah | 6 | #702 | #365 |
| Florida | 24 | #710 | #904 |
| Oregon | 5 | #725 | #795 |
| Minnesota | 7 | #727 | #509 |
| New York | 19 | #857 | #1,373 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #897 | #583 |
| Illinois | 10 | #922 | #462 |
| Arizona | 6 | #1,028 | — |
| California | 19 | #1,320 | #805 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 572 | #526 | — | — |
| 2024 | 607 | #507 | — | — |
| 2023 | 536 | #560 | — | — |
| 2022 | 571 | #540 | — | — |
| 2021 | 563 | #544 | — | — |
| 2020 | 505 | #581 | — | — |
| 2019 | 575 | #534 | — | — |
| 2018 | 586 | #537 | — | — |
| 2017 | 612 | #513 | — | — |
| 2016 | 606 | #514 | — | — |
| 2015 | 601 | #523 | — | — |
| 2014 | 523 | #583 | — | — |
| 2013 | 539 | #550 | — | — |
| 2012 | 508 | #578 | — | — |
| 2011 | 507 | #574 | — | — |
| 2010 | 489 | #599 | — | — |
| 2009 | 493 | #614 | — | — |
| 2008 | 549 | #560 | — | — |
| 2007 | 572 | #542 | — | — |
| 2006 | 605 | #505 | — | — |
| 2005 | 681 | #445 | — | — |
| 2004 | 697 | #440 | — | — |
| 2003 | 742 | #408 | — | — |
| 2002 | 801 | #371 | — | — |
| 2001 | 753 | #387 | — | — |
| 2000 | 811 | #366 | — | — |
| 1999 | 824 | #359 | — | — |
| 1998 | 797 | #362 | — | — |
| 1997 | 775 | #356 | — | — |
| 1996 | 986 | #294 | — | — |
| 1995 | 904 | #307 | — | — |
| 1994 | 923 | #295 | — | — |
| 1993 | 1,041 | #265 | — | — |
| 1992 | 1,089 | #257 | — | — |
| 1991 | 1,191 | #235 | 6 | #8,197 |
| 1990 | 1,335 | #215 | 8 | #6,383 |
| 1989 | 1,266 | #215 | 10 | #5,144 |
| 1988 | 1,292 | #202 | 10 | #4,767 |
| 1987 | 1,246 | #212 | 10 | #4,562 |
| 1986 | 1,367 | #192 | — | — |
| 1985 | 1,378 | #196 | 10 | #4,320 |
| 1984 | 1,465 | #188 | 8 | #4,951 |
| 1983 | 1,679 | #165 | 8 | #4,887 |
| 1982 | 1,761 | #164 | 9 | #4,575 |
| 1981 | 1,802 | #159 | 9 | #4,488 |
| 1980 | 1,737 | #160 | 11 | #3,830 |
| 1979 | 1,657 | #169 | 5 | #7,042 |
| 1978 | 1,652 | #165 | 14 | #3,065 |
| 1977 | 1,598 | #169 | 8 | #4,571 |
| 1976 | 1,616 | #160 | 6 | #5,563 |
| 1975 | 1,733 | #156 | 5 | #6,310 |
| 1974 | 1,711 | #160 | — | — |
| 1973 | 1,817 | #151 | 7 | #4,487 |
| 1972 | 1,790 | #164 | 14 | #2,651 |
| 1971 | 2,148 | #150 | 8 | #3,953 |
| 1970 | 2,331 | #146 | 12 | #2,887 |
| 1969 | 2,444 | #138 | 11 | #2,853 |
| 1968 | 2,456 | #131 | 5 | #4,728 |
| 1967 | 2,553 | #135 | 11 | #2,603 |
| 1966 | 2,940 | #122 | 14 | #2,213 |
| 1965 | 3,296 | #115 | 12 | #2,469 |
| 1964 | 3,794 | #109 | 19 | #1,896 |
| 1963 | 4,214 | #103 | 11 | #2,665 |
| 1962 | 4,285 | #105 | 6 | #4,022 |
| 1961 | 4,576 | #103 | 20 | #1,872 |
| 1960 | 4,787 | #102 | 13 | #2,419 |
| 1959 | 5,256 | #93 | 18 | #1,972 |
| 1958 | 5,667 | #85 | 19 | #1,891 |
| 1957 | 6,238 | #75 | 16 | #2,089 |
| 1956 | 6,392 | #75 | 14 | #2,259 |
| 1955 | 6,855 | #66 | 14 | #2,216 |
| 1954 | 7,176 | #61 | 22 | #1,666 |
| 1953 | 7,546 | #53 | 19 | #1,833 |
| 1952 | 8,161 | #49 | 18 | #1,853 |
| 1951 | 8,180 | #47 | 21 | #1,680 |
| 1950 | 8,312 | #43 | 12 | #2,315 |
| 1949 | 8,896 | #39 | 18 | #1,816 |
| 1948 | 9,296 | #36 | 22 | #1,605 |
| 1947 | 10,407 | #34 | 23 | #1,598 |
| 1946 | 10,015 | #31 | 26 | #1,407 |
| 1945 | 9,244 | #28 | 31 | #1,202 |
| 1944 | 9,895 | #26 | 38 | #1,084 |
| 1943 | 10,847 | #25 | 40 | #1,087 |
| 1942 | 10,803 | #23 | 35 | #1,192 |
| 1941 | 10,043 | #23 | 43 | #986 |
| 1940 | 9,554 | #21 | 44 | #981 |
| 1939 | 9,227 | #21 | 42 | #990 |
| 1938 | 9,269 | #22 | 52 | #868 |
| 1937 | 9,517 | #16 | 34 | #1,146 |
| 1936 | 9,650 | #14 | 50 | #871 |
| 1935 | 9,867 | #16 | 49 | #913 |
| 1934 | 10,002 | #15 | 48 | #916 |
| 1933 | 9,719 | #15 | 42 | #992 |
| 1932 | 10,755 | #14 | 52 | #901 |
| 1931 | 11,886 | #12 | 56 | #856 |
| 1930 | 13,197 | #12 | 69 | #776 |
| 1929 | 13,234 | #11 | 60 | #856 |
| 1928 | 14,500 | #9 | 55 | #912 |
| 1927 | 15,734 | #8 | 74 | #765 |
| 1926 | 16,161 | #8 | 54 | #929 |
| 1925 | 17,490 | #7 | 51 | #955 |
| 1924 | 18,620 | #7 | 46 | #1,056 |
| 1923 | 18,325 | #7 | 36 | #1,212 |
| 1922 | 19,144 | #7 | 37 | #1,195 |
| 1921 | 19,032 | #6 | 38 | #1,177 |
| 1920 | 17,314 | #7 | 32 | #1,298 |
| 1919 | 15,636 | #7 | 28 | #1,382 |
| 1918 | 16,421 | #7 | 31 | #1,285 |
| 1917 | 14,261 | #10 | 28 | #1,318 |
| 1916 | 12,487 | #10 | 21 | #1,589 |
| 1915 | 10,952 | #12 | 28 | #1,263 |
| 1914 | 7,601 | #14 | 19 | #1,438 |
| 1913 | 6,036 | #15 | 16 | #1,363 |
| 1912 | 4,810 | #20 | 12 | #1,522 |
| 1911 | 3,263 | #26 | 9 | #1,288 |
| 1910 | 2,855 | #29 | 8 | #1,306 |
| 1909 | 2,420 | #30 | 6 | #1,432 |
| 1908 | 2,195 | #35 | — | — |
| 1907 | 1,893 | #41 | — | — |
| 1906 | 1,491 | #51 | 5 | #1,404 |
| 1905 | 1,394 | #53 | 6 | #1,227 |
| 1904 | 1,213 | #59 | 5 | #1,389 |
| 1903 | 1,032 | #63 | — | — |
| 1902 | 1,008 | #67 | — | — |
| 1901 | 825 | #76 | 6 | #1,054 |
| 1900 | 1,068 | #74 | — | — |
| 1899 | 776 | #75 | — | — |
| 1898 | 801 | #78 | 6 | #1,116 |
| 1897 | 638 | #84 | — | — |
| 1896 | 621 | #89 | — | — |
| 1895 | 628 | #88 | 5 | #1,229 |
| 1894 | 583 | #91 | — | — |
| 1893 | 498 | #97 | — | — |
| 1892 | 475 | #101 | — | — |
| 1891 | 439 | #97 | — | — |
| 1890 | 405 | #100 | — | — |
| 1889 | 395 | #101 | — | — |
| 1888 | 385 | #100 | — | — |
| 1887 | 332 | #101 | — | — |
| 1886 | 353 | #96 | — | — |
| 1885 | 289 | #103 | — | — |
| 1884 | 263 | #105 | — | — |
| 1883 | 234 | #105 | — | — |
| 1882 | 274 | #94 | — | — |
| 1881 | 210 | #101 | — | — |
| 1880 | 213 | #99 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).