Fun Facts About the Name Viriginia
- 167 babies named Viriginia: U.S. records list 167 babies given the name Viriginia from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Viriginia Mean?
Viriginia is a variant spelling of Virginia, the feminine form of the old Roman name Virginius (also written Verginius). The family name is traditionally connected to the Latin virgo, whose genitive is virginis, meaning "maiden" or "virgin." Roman writers themselves linked the clan name to that word, but the derivation is a traditional association rather than a proven one, and some modern reference works treat it as uncertain. The literal sense of the name is therefore "of the maiden" or "maidenly," and its usual English meaning is simply "maiden" or "virgin."
Viriginia Name History & Origins
The name comes into view through the Roman gens Virginia, a plebeian family whose men bore the name Virginius. The best-known figure attached to it is Verginia, a young woman of legend whose story the Roman historian Livy tells: her father, a centurion named Verginius, killed her to prevent her from falling into the hands of the magistrate Appius Claudius. Whether that story records real events or later tradition is not established, but the tale kept the name in circulation in Latin writing, where both the Vergin- and Virgin- spellings appear.
From Latin the name passed into the languages of Catholic Europe, especially Italian and Spanish, and later into English. In 1584 the English explorer Walter Raleigh named the North American territory Virginia in honor of Queen Elizabeth I, who was widely called the Virgin Queen; the spelling of the place name matched the personal name already known in England. The colony's name kept the word prominent in English, and Virginia became an ordinary given name in the English-speaking world, with shortened forms such as Ginny and Virgie. The spelling Viriginia is a variant of the same name rather than a separate tradition.
How Popular is the Name Viriginia?
Viriginia has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 1923. Its best rank was #3,036 in 1943.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | #12,278 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1964 | #7,789 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1962 | #4,850 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 1961 | #5,833 | 7 | 0.0003% |
| 1960 | #7,292 | 5 | 0.0002% |
| 1958 | #7,004 | 5 | 0.0002% |
| 1955 | #5,809 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 1945 | #5,213 | 5 | 0.0004% |
| 1944 | #4,039 | 7 | 0.0005% |
| 1943 | #3,036 | 11 | 0.0008% |
| 1939 | #4,926 | 5 | 0.0005% |
| 1936 | #4,157 | 6 | 0.0006% |
| 1933 | #4,834 | 5 | 0.0005% |
| 1931 | #3,833 | 7 | 0.0007% |
| 1929 | #3,665 | 8 | 0.0007% |
| 1928 | #5,400 | 5 | 0.0004% |
| 1927 | #3,857 | 8 | 0.0007% |
| 1926 | #3,863 | 8 | 0.0007% |
| 1925 | #5,737 | 5 | 0.0004% |
| 1924 | #5,863 | 5 | 0.0004% |
| 1923 | #3,115 | 11 | 0.0009% |
| 1922 | #4,988 | 6 | 0.0005% |
| 1920 | #4,379 | 7 | 0.0006% |
| 1919 | #5,530 | 5 | 0.0004% |
| 1918 | #4,785 | 6 | 0.0005% |
| 1916 | #5,133 | 5 | 0.0005% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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How the Name Viriginia Shapes Your Personality and Life?
You are fixed in your opinions, firm in your friendships and square in your dealings with others. You are an excellent worker. Since you are both possessive and emotional, you can be either very practical or very impractical and unpredictable. Your dual nature needs to become steadfast. You are the marrying kind. You are intuitive and might be interested in the arts, drama or science.
Position and social status is very important for you and you are always looking for way to improve your position in society. You have power and ability to chose your own destiny and achieve anything you want in life. You can expand in any direction according to your will and the set of values. You have passion for justice and belong to the position of authority. You have an inherent courage and endurance to accomplish "The Impossible Dream". With the power comes responsibility. You hold keys to the material world, but with this gift comes high spiritual responsibility to be fair and true to others. You are philosophical and mature, determined and intense with a desire to endure, often religious.
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