Virginia

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Virginia: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Virginia: Recorded since 1952, its highest recorded position is #82, and it stood at #2,771 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
58times a registrar ranked it
73years from first to last
#82highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#974
1997	#1287
1998	#1036
1999	#1557
2000	#1058
2001	#1170
2002	#1928
2003	#1996
2004	#1535
2005	#1343
2006	#2509
2007	#2627
2008	#2292
2009	#3031
2010	#4688
2011	#4049
2012	#2215
2013	#4050
2014	#4684
2015	#2195
2016	#3214
2017	#3583
2018	#2499
2019	#2869
2020	#2843
2021	#2942
2022	#2488
2023	#5687
2024	#2771

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 20 of the 30 years from 1964 to 1993.

In 1954: #94 among girls in New Zealand, #96 among girls in New South Wales, Australia.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1952–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1952
First recorded at #91 among girls in New South Wales, Australia in 1952 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
New South Wales, Australia · Girls
Highest recorded1952–1963
Highest recorded position: #82 among girls in New South Wales, Australia, in 1953 (recorded 1952–1963).
New South Wales, Australia · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2771 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Virginia appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 29 ranked years and 295 births registered; the earliest is New South Wales, Australia · Girls, from 1952.

Virginia across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Virginia's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#245 (1964)	#245 (1964)	#448 (1993)	20 of 30	122 (1964–1993)	12 (1978)
England and Wales · Girls	#974 (1996)	#974 (1996)	#2771 (2024)	29 of 29	295 (1996–2024)	21 (1996)
New South Wales, Australia · Girls	#91 (1952)	#82 (1953)	#97 (1963)	8 of 12	675 (1952–1963)	101 (1957)

Virginia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Virginia in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	66	4 of 10	17
2000sbusiest	118	10 of 10	12
2010s	73	10 of 10	7
2020s	38	5 of 10	8

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 12 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Virginia appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1952 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #82 in New South Wales, Australia in 1957.

Virginia's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#2771	9	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#5687	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2488	10	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2942	8	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2843	8	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2869	8	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2499	10	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#3583	6	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3214	7	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2195	12	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4050	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2215	12	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4049	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4688	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3031	7	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2292	10	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2627	8	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2509	8	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1343	17	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1535	14	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1996	9	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1928	9	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1170	17	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1058	19	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1557	11	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1036	20	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#1287	14	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#974	21	High	Verified
1963	New South Wales, Australia	female	#97	79	Insufficient	Not yet available
1959	New South Wales, Australia	female	#97	80	Insufficient	Not yet available
1958	New South Wales, Australia	female	#93	87	Insufficient	Not yet available
1957	New South Wales, Australia	female	#82	101	Insufficient	Not yet available
1955	New South Wales, Australia	female	#91	81	Insufficient	Not yet available
1954	New South Wales, Australia	female	#96	75	Insufficient	Not yet available
1953	New South Wales, Australia	female	#82	95	Insufficient	Not yet available
1952	New South Wales, Australia	female	#91	77	Insufficient	Not yet available
1954	New Zealand	female	#94	54	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	female	#448	4	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	female	#446	4	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	female	#519	3	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	female	#471	4	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#370	7	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	female	#291	12	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	female	#429	5	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	female	#329	8	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	female	#406	5	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	female	#324	8	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	female	#449	4	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	female	#389	5	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	female	#417	4	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	female	#326	6	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	female	#288	8	High	Verified
1968	Republic of Ireland	female	#307	6	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	female	#315	5	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	female	#256	8	High	Verified
1965	Republic of Ireland	female	#251	8	High	Verified
1964	Republic of Ireland	female	#245	8	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1952 and 2024, ranked in 57 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #82, first reached in 1953.

It held a top-100 place in 8 years, 4 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 101 births, registered in New South Wales, Australia in 1957.

Its record falls into 8 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 5 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1954, and 44 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Aileen · #81, 62y
Pearse · #85, 60y
Chris · #87, 59y
Conall · #77, 60y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Lois · #82, 35y
Elvira · #81, 50y
Lynn · #83, 66y
Ralph · #81, 52y

Virginia was ranked #82 in New South Wales, Australia · Girls in 1953. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Virginia and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Virginia without appearing here.

Virginia moved ahead of

Tyler Compare
In 2014 they stood at #4684 and #3160 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #2195 and #5730.
Kristy Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4684 and #4684 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #2499 and #5666.
Cheryl Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5687 and #5687 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2771 and #5891.
Donna Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5687 and #5687 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2771 and #5891.

Moved ahead of Virginia

Dylan Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2488 and #3148 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #5687 and #1959.
Marilyn Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2488 and #2673 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #5687 and #2063.
Diane Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2488 and #3148 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #5687 and #2504.
Ezra Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4050 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #4684 and #1628.

Moved the opposite way to Virginia

Aisling Compare
Between 1964 and 1993 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Virginia went from #245 to #448 while Aisling went from #154 to #11.
Alison Compare
Between 1964 and 1993 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Virginia went from #245 to #448 while Alison went from #146 to #41.
Amanda Compare
Between 1964 and 1993 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Virginia went from #245 to #448 while Amanda went from #118 to #53.
Ashley Compare
Between 1964 and 1993 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Virginia went from #245 to #448 while Ashley went from #372 to #143.

Moved the same way as Virginia

Annie Compare
Between 1964 and 1993 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Virginia went from #245 to #448 and Annie from #112 to #213.
Audrey Compare
Between 1964 and 1993 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Virginia went from #245 to #448 and Audrey from #85 to #234.
Deirdre Compare
Between 1964 and 1993 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Virginia went from #245 to #448 and Deirdre from #14 to #51.
Diane Compare
Between 1964 and 1993 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Virginia went from #245 to #448 and Diane from #215 to #320.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1952 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #82 in New South Wales, Australia in 1957. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Virginia

Virginia at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Virginia across 3 official records

Virginia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Virginia appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Virginia

Virginia and the names beside it

Virginia moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Virginia

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Virginia at a glance

Virginia across 3 official records

Virginia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Virginia appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Virginia

Virginia and the names beside it

Virginia moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Virginia

Moved the opposite way to Virginia

Moved the same way as Virginia