Virginia Forename
425th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 1,639,282 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Bolivia
Virginia Forename Definition:
A female name. Latin f. of Virginius, earlier Verginius, the name of a Roman plebeian gens, probably cognate with Vergilius and of non-Latin origin The story of Paul et Virginie (1786) made it popular in France. It came into use in England in the 19th C.
Read More About This ForenameVirginia Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 100% | 591,844 | 1:613 | 115 |
| Mexico | 100% | 233,162 | 1:532 | 104 |
| Philippines | 99% | 218,869 | 1:484 | 52 |
| Brazil | 100% | 45,771 | 1:4,681 | 638 |
| Argentina | 100% | 44,571 | 1:960 | 195 |
| Spain | 100% | 42,607 | 1:1,092 | 188 |
| Peru | 100% | 38,783 | 1:820 | 160 |
| Bolivia | 100% | 36,861 | 1:288 | 52 |
| South Africa | 100% | 31,359 | 1:1,739 | 268 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 30,902 | 1:5,746 | 892 |
| Kenya | 100% | 28,256 | 1:1,639 | 309 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 25,493 | 1:1,185 | 189 |
| Italy | 100% | 24,917 | 1:2,451 | 309 |
| Colombia | 100% | 22,153 | 1:2,157 | 300 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 19,144 | 1:806 | 144 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 13,858 | 1:1,162 | 245 |
| Paraguay | 99% | 13,635 | 1:531 | 109 |
| Chile | 100% | 13,272 | 1:1,327 | 234 |
| England | 100% | 11,853 | 1:4,691 | 521 |
| Ecuador | - | 11,324 | 1:1,565 | 284 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 10,457 | 1:456 | 82 |
| Cuba | - | 9,663 | 1:1,191 | 257 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 8,895 | 1:1,173 | 184 |
| Malawi | 99% | 8,588 | 1:1,993 | 388 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 7,007 | 1:489 | 104 |
| Canada | 100% | 6,939 | 1:4,775 | 746 |
| Honduras | 100% | 6,747 | 1:1,307 | 225 |
| Australia | - | 6,579 | 1:2,076 | 388 |
| Zambia | - | 6,228 | 1:2,546 | 442 |
| Greece | 100% | 5,878 | 1:1,860 | 205 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 5,797 | 1:1,038 | 202 |
| El Salvador | - | 5,341 | 1:1,187 | 205 |
| Panama | 100% | 5,225 | 1:748 | 113 |
| Mozambique | - | 4,800 | 1:5,676 | 1,044 |
| Angola | 100% | 3,779 | 1:7,136 | 961 |
| Romania | 100% | 3,778 | 1:5,308 | 487 |
| Sudan | 100% | 2,380 | 1:15,885 | 1,693 |
| Germany | 100% | 1,946 | 1:49,680 | 1,448 |
| New Zealand | - | 1,551 | 1:2,925 | 509 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 1,496 | 1:172,436 | 17,270 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 1,294 | 1:40,795 | 3,228 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 1,246 | 1:2,849 | 314 |
| Bahamas | - | 1,173 | 1:340 | 57 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 1,107 | 1:27,834 | 3,534 |
| India | 100% | 1,079 | 1:1,125,930 | 70,896 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 930 | 1:22,365 | 2,897 |
| Netherlands | 100% | 903 | 1:18,718 | 1,847 |
| Jamaica | - | 859 | 1:3,356 | 634 |
| Namibia | - | 840 | 1:2,862 | 505 |
| Uganda | 100% | 800 | 1:51,196 | 3,020 |
| Belgium | 100% | 755 | 1:15,219 | 1,350 |
| Thailand | 100% | 718 | 1:97,585 | 8,329 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 666 | 1:2,044 | 404 |
| Egypt | 100% | 651 | 1:141,169 | 5,768 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 646 | 1:12,714 | 1,124 |
| Botswana | 100% | 596 | 1:3,665 | 651 |
| DR Congo | 98% | 582 | 1:126,852 | 6,351 |
| Papua New Guinea | 100% | 577 | 1:14,129 | 1,412 |
| Wales | 100% | 571 | 1:5,419 | 617 |
| Ghana | 100% | 562 | 1:48,018 | 2,599 |
| Poland | 100% | 518 | 1:73,411 | 1,760 |
| Ireland | 100% | 515 | 1:9,017 | 684 |
| Belize | 100% | 508 | 1:697 | 104 |
| Scotland | 100% | 486 | 1:11,009 | 740 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 425 | 1:50,848 | 3,306 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 424 | 1:4,347 | 528 |
| Hong Kong | - | 420 | 1:18,459 | 2,056 |
| Vanuatu | - | 371 | 1:706 | 186 |
| Swaziland | - | 359 | 1:3,622 | 724 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 356 | 1:66,769 | 9,162 |
| Sweden | 100% | 323 | 1:30,520 | 1,886 |
| Guam | - | 300 | 1:535 | 85 |
| Moldova | 100% | 272 | 1:13,092 | 525 |
| Saint Lucia | 99% | 266 | 1:668 | 87 |
| Fiji | - | 259 | 1:3,445 | 924 |
| Suriname | 100% | 247 | 1:2,238 | 528 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 100% | 232 | 1:828 | 136 |
| China | - | 204 | 1:6,696,352 | 59,324 |
| Curaçao | 100% | 204 | 1:764 | 235 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 204 | 1:2,848 | 430 |
| Micronesia | - | 188 | 1:566 | 97 |
| Hungary | 100% | 182 | 1:53,801 | 563 |
| Malaysia | 98% | 161 | 1:189,130 | 11,132 |
| Guyana | 100% | 153 | 1:4,989 | 911 |
| Haiti | 100% | 153 | 1:70,111 | 4,329 |
| Barbados | - | 146 | 1:1,985 | 438 |
| Dominica | - | 142 | 1:531 | 123 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 134 | 1:819 | 147 |
| Liberia | 100% | 133 | 1:33,173 | 1,976 |
| Aruba | - | 121 | 1:858 | 164 |
| Cape Verde | - | 118 | 1:4,484 | 630 |
| Norway | 100% | 110 | 1:46,658 | 1,978 |
| Morocco | - | 109 | 1:315,125 | 6,796 |
| Portugal | - | 101 | 1:103,078 | 2,758 |
| Austria | 100% | 100 | 1:85,142 | 1,952 |
| Grenada | 100% | 99 | 1:1,092 | 213 |
| Russia | 100% | 99 | 1:1,456,906 | 10,975 |
| French Polynesia | - | 97 | 1:2,865 | 584 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 93 | 1:1,069 | 203 |
| Andorra | - | 92 | 1:901 | 143 |
| Qatar | 100% | 87 | 1:27,237 | 3,729 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 78 | 1:701 | 120 |
| Kuwait | - | 76 | 1:49,806 | 4,237 |
| Bahrain | - | 74 | 1:18,225 | 2,605 |
| Japan | - | 71 | 1:1,802,621 | 18,954 |
| Singapore | 100% | 64 | 1:98,235 | 7,388 |
| Bermuda | - | 58 | 1:1,118 | 250 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 55 | 1:15,838 | 1,140 |
| Israel | 99% | 52 | 1:161,595 | 5,570 |
| Cayman Islands | 100% | 50 | 1:1,226 | 278 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 41 | 1:4,740,431 | 47,266 |
| Macau | - | 40 | 1:15,205 | 308 |
| Iraq | 100% | 39 | 1:897,894 | 7,740 |
| Jersey | - | 38 | 1:2,631 | 424 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 100% | 36 | 1:1,524 | 357 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 34 | 1:3,282 | 615 |
| British Virgin Islands | 100% | 33 | 1:947 | 205 |
| Lesotho | 95% | 32 | 1:63,750 | 6,271 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 31 | 1:230,709 | 14,681 |
| Benin | 100% | 30 | 1:352,528 | 13,438 |
| Finland | 100% | 28 | 1:195,828 | 3,377 |
| Malta | - | 28 | 1:15,334 | 1,292 |
| Denmark | - | 26 | 1:217,288 | 4,686 |
| Estonia | 100% | 26 | 1:50,592 | 2,900 |
| Seychelles | 100% | 26 | 1:3,564 | 725 |
| Monaco | 100% | 24 | 1:1,603 | 333 |
| American Samoa | - | 23 | 1:2,428 | 422 |
| Congo | 100% | 23 | 1:217,792 | 6,290 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 23 | 1:24,524 | 1,332 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 22 | 1:12,280 | 1,140 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | - | 22 | 1:1,578 | 368 |
| San Marino | 100% | 19 | 1:1,733 | 265 |
| Czechia | 100% | 17 | 1:626,833 | 2,751 |
| France | 100% | 16 | 1:4,154,396 | 18,164 |
| Turkey | 100% | 14 | 1:5,557,265 | 23,905 |
| Bulgaria | - | 13 | 1:537,722 | 8,096 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 12 | 1:4,269 | 670 |
| Nauru | 100% | 12 | 1:994 | 151 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 10 | 1:2,307,593 | 50,152 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 10 | 1:531,006 | 2,372 |
| Bangladesh | - | 9 | 1:17,717,930 | 19,122 |
| Croatia | 100% | 9 | 1:468,564 | 5,419 |
| Equatorial Guinea | 100% | 9 | 1:126,410 | 509 |
| Ethiopia | 100% | 9 | 1:10,840,015 | 14,737 |
| South Korea | - | 9 | 1:616,047 | 14,026 |
| Albania | 100% | 8 | 1:380,821 | 15,237 |
| Senegal | 100% | 8 | 1:1,822,670 | 12,813 |
| Serbia | - | 8 | 1:893,215 | 5,853 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 7 | 1:2,625,638 | 48,146 |
| Oman | - | 6 | 1:684,778 | 5,486 |
| Anguilla | 100% | 5 | 1:2,651 | 523 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 5 | 1:1,125,514 | 9,179 |
| Lithuania | - | 5 | 1:590,376 | 2,548 |
| Mauritius | - | 5 | 1:259,557 | 4,811 |
| Belarus | 100% | 4 | 1:2,370,596 | 9,928 |
| Brunei | - | 4 | 1:104,892 | 1,566 |
| Madagascar | - | 4 | 1:5,907,352 | 4,093 |
| Myanmar | - | 4 | 1:12,987,068 | 1,965 |
| Norfolk Island | - | 4 | 1:581 | 152 |
| Saint Martin | - | 4 | 1:8,936 | 133 |
| Samoa | - | 4 | 1:48,798 | 712 |
| Tonga | - | 4 | 1:26,859 | 378 |
| Cambodia | - | 3 | 1:5,424,443 | 41,412 |
| Georgia | 83% | 3 | 1:1,246,155 | 15,822 |
| Montserrat | - | 3 | 1:1,625 | 276 |
| Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | - | 3 | 1:1,943 | 243 |
| Vietnam | - | 3 | 1:30,874,371 | 5,995 |
| Afghanistan | - | 2 | 1:16,311,758 | 48,279 |
| Algeria | - | 2 | 1:19,088,360 | 22,377 |
| Armenia | 100% | 2 | 1:1,459,376 | 10,220 |
| Azerbaijan | - | 2 | 1:4,821,472 | 33,780 |
| Isle of Man | 100% | 2 | 1:42,512 | 455 |
| Kazakhstan | 100% | 2 | 1:8,873,422 | 35,327 |
| Niger | - | 2 | 1:9,591,997 | 55,581 |
| Slovenia | - | 2 | 1:1,229,379 | 6,326 |
| Ukraine | - | 2 | 1:22,749,954 | 22,291 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | - | 1 | 1:3,524,458 | 8,651 |
| Cook Islands | - | 1 | 1:18,153 | 1,349 |
| Faroe Islands | 100% | 1 | 1:49,127 | 2,467 |
| Iceland | - | 1 | 1:366,017 | 7,938 |
| Iran | - | 1 | 1:78,496,868 | 65,150 |
| Jordan | 100% | 1 | 1:8,826,774 | 11,126 |
| Kyrgyzstan | - | 1 | 1:5,973,277 | 46,622 |
| Libya | - | 1 | 1:6,221,309 | 3,060 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 1 | 1:37,856 | 1,091 |
| Mongolia | - | 1 | 1:2,934,814 | 16,205 |
| Montenegro | 100% | 1 | 1:634,576 | 4,914 |
| Palau | - | 1 | 1:21,711 | 239 |
| Rwanda | - | 1 | 1:11,371,433 | 4,615 |
| Turkmenistan | 100% | 1 | 1:5,472,870 | 3,925 |
| Uzbekistan | 100% | 1 | 1:30,786,440 | 17,476 |
The alternate forms: Virgínia (64,450), Virgiñia (21) & Vírginia (1) are calculated separately.
Virginia (4,846) may also be a surname.
Virginia Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A female name. Latin f. of Virginius, earlier Verginius, the name of a Roman plebeian gens, probably cognate with Vergilius and of non-Latin origin The story of Paul et Virginie (1786) made it popular in France. It came into use in England in the 19th C. The name arose independently in America where the first child born in America of English parentage (Virginia Dare, b. Roanoke, Aug 1587) received the name of the plantation. It is much commoner there than in England.
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
A name that, like its non-adopted m. counterpart (Virginius), was at first spelt Ver-; like Virgil (q. v.), it relates to Spring and all fair growing things. Only incurably romantic and obstinate people persist in deriving Virginia from Latin virgo, a virgin: that Raleigh named the American colony in honour of the Virgin Queen (‘order, please!’) does not prove that he knew not the Classical Virginia.
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
The Roman name, a feminine of Virginius, from root of Virgo, q. v.
— Prænomina (1882) by Richard Stephen Charnock
Latin (feminine) - Pure.
— What is Your Name? (1863) by Sophy Moody
A Latin name, meaning: A maid.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
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