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Virginie

Girls' name

Form of Virginia

Virginie has been given to 68 babies in the U.S. since 1917. 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 1930, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Virginie, 1999

1 in 738,000

Virginie 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Virginie: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Virginia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Virginie means

Virginie is a form of Virginia.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Virginie is used in French.

Another recorded pronunciation is /viʁ.ʒi.ni/ for Virginie.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Virginie is used in Czech and French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Virginia.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Virginie is pronounced [ˈvɪrdʒiːnɪjɛ].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 68 girls were recorded with the name Virginie between 1917 and 1999. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1930; its best national rank was #4,022 in 1930.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Virginie?

Virginie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1999, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1999
1 in 738,000
5 of 3,692,373 births
Among girls only
1 in 355,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1999
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
511,873 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Virginie 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 1999 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 511,873 children born in 1999 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Virginie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Virginies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Virginie was born before 1930 — so the typical Virginie is around 95 today.

Median birth year
1930
About 95 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
25.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
39.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
32
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 25.0% of all recorded uses (17).

Is Virginie 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 1930 (7)
Years since peak
95
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Very steady
0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,022
1930

Spellings of Virginie

Virginie is not the most common spelling — Virginia is, with 96.5% against Virginie's 0.01%.

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.

Virginie around the world

Where Virginie 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
    1900–2023
    #4,614
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1991–2021
    #3,354
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1967–1967
    #650
    in 1967

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

Virginie 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
#4,022
1930
Peak year
1930
7 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
1999
All-time count
68
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Virginie

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

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Sibling names for Virginie

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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