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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 0.001089845 210 100%
1882 274 0.001236836 274 100%
1883 234 0.001078609 234 100%
1884 263 0.001080255 263 100%
1885 289 0.001199897 289 100%
1886 353 0.0013826 353 100%
1887 332 0.001342 332 100%
1888 385 0.001285587 385 100%
1889 395 0.001367037 395 100%
1890 405 0.001343725 405 100%
1891 439 0.001531361 439 100%
1892 475 0.001420565 475 100%
1893 498 0.001531257 498 100%
1894 583 0.001721338 583 100%
1895 633 0.001803316 628 5 98%
1896 621 0.001737141 621 100%
1897 638 0.001838845 638 100%
1898 807 0.002115584 801 6 99%
1899 776 0.002287507 776 100%
1900 1068 0.002371973 1068 100%
1901 831 0.00240304 825 6 99%
1902 1008 0.002606449 1008 100%
1903 1032 0.00270724 1032 100%
1904 1218 0.0030187 1213 5 99%
1905 1400 0.003302494 1394 6 99%
1906 1496 0.003491648 1491 5 99%
1907 1893 0.004067556 1893 100%
1908 2195 0.004491977 2195 100%
1909 2426 0.004745474 2420 6 100%
1910 2863 0.004846702 2855 8 99%
1911 3272 0.005078553 3263 9 99%
1912 4822 0.004880261 4810 12 100%
1913 6052 0.005322265 6036 16 99%
1914 7620 0.005380049 7601 19 100%
1915 10980 0.005992056 10952 28 99%
1916 12508 0.006466031 12487 21 100%
1917 14289 0.007120468 14261 28 100%
1918 16452 0.007577687 16421 31 100%
1919 15664 0.007422835 15636 28 100%
1920 17346 0.007666256 17314 32 100%
1921 19070 0.008168755 19032 38 100%
1922 19181 0.008379071 19144 37 100%
1923 18362 0.007974876 18326 36 100%
1924 18666 0.007837555 18620 46 100%
1925 17541 0.007517673 17490 51 99%
1926 16215 0.007062574 16161 54 99%
1927 15807 0.006815248 15733 74 99%
1928 14555 0.006437594 14500 55 99%
1929 13294 0.006064336 13234 60 99%
1930 13266 0.005966838 13197 69 99%
1931 11942 0.005674809 11886 56 99%
1932 10807 0.005118669 10755 52 99%
1933 9761 0.00488185 9719 42 99%
1934 10050 0.004839139 10002 48 99%
1935 9916 0.004744725 9867 49 99%
1936 9700 0.004668898 9650 50 99%
1937 9550 0.004482158 9516 34 99%
1938 9321 0.00421274 9269 52 99%
1939 9269 0.004206601 9227 42 99%
1940 9598 0.004168177 9554 44 99%
1941 10087 0.004140082 10044 43 99%
1942 10837 0.003966955 10802 35 99%
1943 10886 0.003856784 10846 40 99%
1944 9932 0.003692085 9894 38 99%
1945 9275 0.003496161 9244 31 99%
1946 10042 0.003142734 10016 26 99%
1947 10430 0.002895355 10407 23 100%
1948 9318 0.0026989 9296 22 100%
1949 8913 0.002557697 8895 18 100%
1950 8324 0.002376006 8312 12 100%
1951 8201 0.002226271 8180 21 99%
1952 8179 0.002153499 8161 18 100%
1953 7565 0.001963077 7546 19 99%
1954 7198 0.001808221 7176 22 99%
1955 6869 0.0017108 6855 14 100%
1956 6406 0.001553709 6392 14 100%
1957 6254 0.001488288 6238 16 99%
1958 5686 0.001375455 5667 19 99%
1959 5274 0.001268401 5256 18 99%
1960 4800 0.001155564 4787 13 99%
1961 4596 0.001109528 4576 20 99%
1962 4291 0.001063347 4285 6 100%
1963 4225 0.001067404 4214 11 99%
1964 3813 0.00098081 3794 19 99%
1965 3308 0.000912439 3296 12 99%
1966 2953 0.000849624 2939 14 99%
1967 2564 0.000755251 2553 11 99%
1968 2461 0.000728449 2456 5 100%
1969 2455 0.000706409 2444 11 99%
1970 2343 0.000649658 2331 12 99%
1971 2156 0.00062814 2148 8 99%
1972 1804 0.000573975 1790 14 98%
1973 1824 0.000604597 1817 7 99%
1974 1711 0.000562829 1711 100%
1975 1738 0.000575612 1733 5 99%
1976 1622 0.000534555 1616 6 99%
1977 1606 0.000505589 1598 8 99%
1978 1666 0.000524911 1652 14 98%
1979 1662 0.000499549 1657 5 99%
1980 1749 0.000507765 1738 11 99%
1981 1811 0.000523505 1802 9 99%
1982 1770 0.000504566 1761 9 99%
1983 1687 0.000487102 1679 8 99%
1984 1473 0.000422214 1465 8 99%
1985 1389 0.000389173 1379 10 99%
1986 1367 0.000384304 1367 100%
1987 1256 0.000348346 1246 10 98%
1988 1303 0.000352635 1293 10 98%
1989 1276 0.000331907 1266 10 98%
1990 1343 0.000339787 1335 8 99%
1991 1197 0.000307296 1191 6 99%
1992 1089 0.0002835 1089 100%
1993 1041 0.000276107 1041 100%
1994 923 0.000248275 923 100%
1995 904 0.000246849 904 100%
1996 986 0.000270345 986 100%
1997 775 0.000213749 775 100%
1998 797 0.000216682 797 100%
1999 824 0.000223072 824 100%
2000 811 0.000214556 811 100%
2001 753 0.000201155 753 100%
2002 801 0.000214269 801 100%
2003 742 0.000195144 742 100%
2004 697 0.000182417 697 100%
2005 681 0.00017712 681 100%
2006 605 0.000152925 605 100%
2007 572 0.000143083 572 100%
2008 549 0.000139671 549 100%
2009 493 0.000129052 493 100%
2010 489 0.000132315 489 100%
2011 507 0.000138608 507 100%
2012 508 0.000138898 508 100%
2013 539 0.000147847 539 100%
2014 523 0.000141108 523 100%
2015 600 0.000162122 600 100%
2016 604 0.000164636 604 100%
2017 611 0.000170852 611 100%
2018 586 0.000166672 586 100%
2019 575 0.000165662 575 100%
2020 505 0.000151171 505 100%
2021 562 0.000165882 562 100%
2022 569 0.000168187 569 100%
2023 535 0.000161573 535 100%
2024 601 0.000180562 601 100%