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How popular is “Virginia” in the USA?

Number of people named “Virginia” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Virginia” 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 “Virginia” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Virginia” by birth year

This chart shows how “Virginia” 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
1880 213 0.001057156 213 100%
1881 210 0.001089833 210 100%
1882 274 0.001236836 274 100%
1883 234 0.001078614 234 100%
1884 263 0.001080255 263 100%
1885 289 0.001199897 289 100%
1886 353 0.001382595 353 100%
1887 332 0.001341994 332 100%
1888 385 0.001285592 385 100%
1889 395 0.001367037 395 100%
1890 405 0.001343725 405 100%
1891 439 0.001531372 439 100%
1892 475 0.001420565 475 100%
1893 498 0.001531257 498 100%
1894 583 0.001721338 583 100%
1895 633 0.001803311 628 5 98%
1896 621 0.001737141 621 100%
1897 638 0.001838845 638 100%
1898 807 0.002115578 801 6 99%
1899 776 0.002287513 776 100%
1900 1068 0.002371958 1068 100%
1901 831 0.00240304 825 6 99%
1902 1008 0.002606456 1008 100%
1903 1032 0.002707226 1032 100%
1904 1218 0.0030187 1213 5 99%
1905 1400 0.003302471 1394 6 99%
1906 1496 0.003491648 1491 5 99%
1907 1893 0.004067539 1893 100%
1908 2195 0.004491949 2195 100%
1909 2426 0.004745474 2420 6 100%
1910 2863 0.004846693 2855 8 99%
1911 3272 0.005078545 3263 9 99%
1912 4822 0.00488027 4810 12 100%
1913 6052 0.00532226 6036 16 99%
1914 7620 0.005380041 7601 19 100%
1915 10980 0.005992043 10952 28 99%
1916 12508 0.006466027 12487 21 100%
1917 14289 0.00712045 14261 28 100%
1918 16452 0.007577691 16421 31 100%
1919 15664 0.007422814 15636 28 100%
1920 17346 0.007666232 17314 32 100%
1921 19070 0.008168759 19032 38 100%
1922 19182 0.008379522 19145 37 100%
1923 18362 0.00797483 18326 36 100%
1924 18666 0.007837519 18620 46 100%
1925 17542 0.00751804 17491 51 99%
1926 16215 0.007062602 16161 54 99%
1927 15804 0.006813963 15730 74 99%
1928 14556 0.006438141 14501 55 99%
1929 13293 0.006063857 13233 60 99%
1930 13268 0.00596776 13199 69 99%
1931 11941 0.005674442 11885 56 99%
1932 10806 0.005118263 10754 52 99%
1933 9761 0.004881945 9719 42 99%
1934 10049 0.004838774 10001 48 99%
1935 9916 0.004744908 9867 49 99%
1936 9701 0.004669499 9650 51 99%
1937 9548 0.004481316 9515 33 99%
1938 9322 0.004213213 9270 52 99%
1939 9269 0.004206671 9227 42 99%
1940 9599 0.004168767 9555 44 99%
1941 10085 0.004139406 10042 43 99%
1942 10839 0.003967821 10804 35 99%
1943 10885 0.003856502 10845 40 99%
1944 9932 0.003692184 9894 38 99%
1945 9276 0.003496618 9245 31 99%
1946 10041 0.003142479 10015 26 99%
1947 10430 0.002895435 10407 23 100%
1948 9318 0.00269893 9296 22 100%
1949 8913 0.002557743 8895 18 100%
1950 8324 0.002375975 8312 12 100%
1951 8201 0.002226255 8180 21 99%
1952 8179 0.002153483 8161 18 100%
1953 7565 0.001963095 7546 19 99%
1954 7198 0.00180822 7176 22 99%
1955 6867 0.001710307 6853 14 100%
1956 6408 0.001554176 6394 14 100%
1957 6257 0.001488878 6241 16 99%
1958 5683 0.001375108 5664 19 99%
1959 5275 0.001269029 5257 18 99%
1960 4802 0.001155913 4789 13 99%
1961 4595 0.001109655 4575 20 99%
1962 4289 0.001062936 4283 6 100%
1963 4226 0.001067552 4215 11 99%
1964 3813 0.000980792 3794 19 99%
1965 3308 0.000912394 3296 12 99%
1966 2952 0.000849342 2938 14 99%
1967 2565 0.000755521 2554 11 99%
1968 2461 0.000728417 2456 5 100%
1969 2454 0.000706056 2443 11 99%
1970 2341 0.000649047 2329 12 99%
1971 2156 0.000628117 2148 8 99%
1972 1804 0.000573916 1790 14 98%
1973 1824 0.00060455 1817 7 99%
1974 1711 0.000562791 1711 100%
1975 1738 0.000575548 1733 5 99%
1976 1622 0.000534496 1616 6 99%
1977 1606 0.000505556 1598 8 99%
1978 1666 0.000524858 1652 14 98%
1979 1662 0.000499502 1657 5 99%
1980 1749 0.000507716 1738 11 99%
1981 1811 0.000523473 1802 9 99%
1982 1770 0.000504535 1761 9 99%
1983 1687 0.000487088 1679 8 99%
1984 1473 0.000422216 1465 8 99%
1985 1389 0.000389183 1379 10 99%
1986 1367 0.000384318 1367 100%
1987 1256 0.000348363 1246 10 98%
1988 1303 0.000352662 1293 10 98%
1989 1276 0.00033192 1266 10 98%
1990 1343 0.000339819 1335 8 99%
1991 1197 0.000307318 1191 6 99%
1992 1089 0.000283523 1089 100%
1993 1041 0.000276129 1041 100%
1994 923 0.000248295 923 100%
1995 905 0.00024714 905 100%
1996 986 0.000270365 986 100%
1997 775 0.000213762 775 100%
1998 797 0.000216695 797 100%
1999 824 0.000223088 824 100%
2000 811 0.000214572 811 100%
2001 753 0.00020117 753 100%
2002 801 0.000214298 801 100%
2003 742 0.000195173 742 100%
2004 697 0.000182444 697 100%
2005 681 0.000177152 681 100%
2006 605 0.000152959 605 100%
2007 572 0.00014312 572 100%
2008 549 0.000139715 549 100%
2009 492 0.000128836 492 100%
2010 489 0.000132361 489 100%
2011 507 0.000138664 507 100%
2012 508 0.000138961 508 100%
2013 539 0.000147929 539 100%
2014 523 0.000141192 523 100%
2015 600 0.000162233 600 100%
2016 604 0.000164764 604 100%
2017 611 0.000171016 611 100%
2018 586 0.000166868 586 100%
2019 574 0.000165617 574 100%
2020 505 0.000151471 505 100%
2021 561 0.00016599 561 100%
2022 569 0.00016925 569 100%