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Verginia

Girls' name

Variant of Virginia

Verginia has been given to 171 babies in the U.S. since 1915. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1923, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Verginia, 1968

1 in 676,000

Verginia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Verginia: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Virginia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Verginia means

Verginia is a variant of Virginia.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Verginia is used in Ancient Roman.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Verginia → Virginia. The family’s proposed meaning is “maid, virgin”, recorded in the naming reference for Virginia.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Virginia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 171 girls were recorded with the name Verginia between 1915 and 1968. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1923; its best national rank was #2,570 in 1938.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Verginia?

Verginia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1968, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1968
1 in 676,000
5 of 3,378,301 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1968
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
468,333 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Verginia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1968 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 468,333 children born in 1968 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Verginia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Verginias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Verginia was born before 1928 — so the typical Verginia is around 97 today.

Median birth year
1928
About 97 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
40.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
21
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1920s — 40.9% of all recorded uses (70).

Is Verginia rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1923 (13)
Years since peak
102
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
51.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,570
1938

Spellings of Verginia

Verginia is not the most common spelling — Virginia is, with 98.5% against Verginia's 0.03%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Verginia around the world

Where Verginia ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1974–1974
    #2,615
    in 1974
  • South Australia
    1960–1969
    #731
    in 1969

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Verginia by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,570
1938
Peak year
1923
13 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
1968
All-time count
171
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Verginia

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Verginia

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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