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How popular is “Virgia” in the USA?

Number of people named “Virgia” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Virgia” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Virgia” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Virgia” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Virgia” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Virgia” by birth year

This chart shows how “Virgia” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1885 6 0.000024911 6 100%
1888 6 0.000020035 6 100%
1889 7 0.000024226 7 100%
1890 7 0.000023225 7 100%
1891 7 0.000024418 7 100%
1892 7 0.000020935 7 100%
1893 5 0.000015374 5 100%
1895 13 0.000037035 13 100%
1896 12 0.000033568 12 100%
1897 9 0.00002594 9 100%
1898 9 0.000023594 9 100%
1900 9 0.000019989 9 100%
1901 8 0.000023134 8 100%
1902 14 0.000036201 14 100%
1903 9 0.00002361 9 100%
1904 5 0.000012392 5 100%
1905 14 0.000033025 14 100%
1906 5 0.00001167 5 100%
1907 11 0.000023636 11 100%
1908 10 0.000020465 10 100%
1909 12 0.000023473 12 100%
1910 17 0.000028779 17 100%
1911 15 0.000023282 15 100%
1912 19 0.00001923 19 100%
1913 25 0.000021986 25 100%
1914 25 0.000017651 25 100%
1915 29 0.000015826 29 100%
1916 22 0.000011373 22 100%
1917 28 0.000013953 28 100%
1918 31 0.000014278 31 100%
1919 42 0.000019903 42 100%
1920 37 0.000016353 37 100%
1921 26 0.000011137 26 100%
1922 35 0.000015289 35 100%
1923 32 0.000013898 32 100%
1924 37 0.000015536 37 100%
1925 34 0.000014572 34 100%
1926 35 0.000015245 35 100%
1927 27 0.000011641 27 100%
1928 38 0.000016807 38 100%
1929 28 0.000012773 28 100%
1930 30 0.000013494 30 100%
1931 25 0.00001188 25 100%
1932 25 0.000011841 25 100%
1933 23 0.000011503 23 100%
1934 24 0.000011556 24 100%
1935 13 0.00000622 13 100%
1936 27 0.000012996 27 100%
1937 16 0.000007509 16 100%
1938 22 0.000009943 22 100%
1939 20 0.000009077 20 100%
1940 15 0.000006514 15 100%
1941 23 0.00000944 23 100%
1942 12 0.000004393 12 100%
1943 13 0.000004606 13 100%
1944 12 0.000004461 12 100%
1945 23 0.00000867 23 100%
1946 11 0.000003443 11 100%
1947 12 0.000003331 12 100%
1948 6 0.000001738 6 100%
1949 7 0.000002009 7 100%
1950 12 0.000003425 12 100%
1951 5 0.000001357 5 100%
1952 13 0.000003423 13 100%
1953 14 0.000003633 14 100%
1954 6 0.000001507 6 100%
1955 10 0.000002491 10 100%
1958 6 0.000001451 6 100%
1961 9 0.000002173 9 100%
1967 7 0.000002062 7 100%

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