Virgie
Virgie was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 22,468 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,900 Americans named Virgie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (17% of everyone recorded); the median is 77 years old and half are between 67 and 85.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Virgie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Virgie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Virgie is “a diminutive of the female given name Virginia.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Virgie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,535, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
581 babies in 1918, the peak
Virgie peaked in 1918, when 581 babies were given it (566 girls, #266 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #17,535 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,591 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 5 | #16,070 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,458 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,372 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,459 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,311 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,216 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,648 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,368 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (117)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 11 | #6,594 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,337 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,794 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,295 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,344 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,335 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,850 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,420 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,554 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,998 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,534 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 24 | #3,050 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 25 | #2,918 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,479 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 22 | #3,057 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 34 | #2,338 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 33 | #2,352 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 38 | #2,054 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 40 | #1,907 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 37 | #1,946 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 49 | #1,620 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 55 | #1,515 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 69 | #1,360 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 71 | #1,318 | 0.04 |
| 1962 | 57 | #1,493 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 80 | #1,241 | 0.04 |
| 1960 | 86 | #1,179 | 0.04 |
| 1959 | 96 | #1,097 | 0.05 |
| 1958 | 103 | #1,035 | 0.05 |
| 1957 | 113 | #979 | 0.06 |
| 1956 | 102 | #1,014 | 0.05 |
| 1955 | 120 | #896 | 0.06 |
| 1954 | 138 | #800 | 0.07 |
| 1953 | 143 | #766 | 0.08 |
| 1952 | 145 | #736 | 0.08 |
| 1951 | 134 | #763 | 0.07 |
| 1950 | 159 | #673 | 0.09 |
| 1949 | 151 | #680 | 0.09 |
| 1948 | 185 | #608 | 0.11 |
| 1947 | 188 | #614 | 0.11 |
| 1946 | 199 | #565 | 0.13 |
| 1945 | 195 | #524 | 0.15 |
| 1944 | 213 | #496 | 0.16 |
| 1943 | 235 | #482 | 0.17 |
| 1942 | 233 | #484 | 0.17 |
| 1941 | 246 | #438 | 0.20 |
| 1940 | 288 | #403 | 0.25 |
| 1939 | 279 | #404 | 0.25 |
| 1938 | 262 | #417 | 0.24 |
| 1937 | 316 | #365 | 0.30 |
| 1936 | 317 | #356 | 0.30 |
| 1935 | 315 | #359 | 0.30 |
| 1934 | 292 | #368 | 0.28 |
| 1933 | 339 | #335 | 0.34 |
| 1932 | 346 | #340 | 0.32 |
| 1931 | 330 | #352 | 0.31 |
| 1930 | 418 | #324 | 0.37 |
| 1929 | 357 | #344 | 0.32 |
| 1928 | 438 | #313 | 0.38 |
| 1927 | 495 | #301 | 0.42 |
| 1926 | 425 | #322 | 0.36 |
| 1925 | 469 | #306 | 0.39 |
| 1924 | 526 | #288 | 0.42 |
| 1923 | 521 | #284 | 0.43 |
| 1922 | 558 | #275 | 0.46 |
| 1921 | 535 | #286 | 0.43 |
| 1920 | 527 | #285 | 0.44 |
| 1919 | 559 | #268 | 0.49 |
| 1918 | 566 | #266 | 0.49 |
| 1917 | 509 | #274 | 0.47 |
| 1916 | 509 | #269 | 0.49 |
| 1915 | 488 | #265 | 0.50 |
| 1914 | 402 | #257 | 0.53 |
| 1913 | 364 | #249 | 0.58 |
| 1912 | 342 | #244 | 0.61 |
| 1911 | 275 | #237 | 0.66 |
| 1910 | 292 | #222 | 0.74 |
| 1909 | 285 | #202 | 0.82 |
| 1908 | 302 | #187 | 0.90 |
| 1907 | 251 | #205 | 0.79 |
| 1906 | 224 | #206 | 0.76 |
| 1905 | 244 | #194 | 0.84 |
| 1904 | 261 | #184 | 0.95 |
| 1903 | 214 | #196 | 0.82 |
| 1902 | 210 | #203 | 0.80 |
| 1901 | 215 | #193 | 0.90 |
| 1900 | 260 | #196 | 0.87 |
| 1899 | 206 | #194 | 0.88 |
| 1898 | 204 | #205 | 0.79 |
| 1897 | 194 | #199 | 0.83 |
| 1896 | 211 | #191 | 0.89 |
| 1895 | 191 | #197 | 0.82 |
| 1894 | 177 | #199 | 0.79 |
| 1893 | 180 | #193 | 0.85 |
| 1892 | 155 | #203 | 0.73 |
| 1891 | 139 | #193 | 0.75 |
| 1890 | 154 | #194 | 0.81 |
| 1889 | 121 | #209 | 0.68 |
| 1888 | 112 | #218 | 0.63 |
| 1887 | 100 | #204 | 0.69 |
| 1886 | 99 | #197 | 0.68 |
| 1885 | 77 | #226 | 0.58 |
| 1884 | 78 | #214 | 0.60 |
| 1883 | 60 | #233 | 0.53 |
| 1882 | 52 | #241 | 0.48 |
| 1881 | 43 | #243 | 0.47 |
| 1880 | 41 | #246 | 0.45 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Virgie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 22,468 Americans recorded as Virgie, 97% are girls and 3% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Virgie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Virgie, and how old are they?
3,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 17% of the 22,468 Americans ever recorded as Virgie. The median Virgie alive today is 77 years old; half are between 67 and 85.
The 2020 Census counted 4,277 people named Virgie (4,225 women and girls, 52 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,407 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1,460 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,800 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 450 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 132 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 10 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Virgie born?
The states with the most babies named Virgie are Texas, Kentucky and Virginia, with 31% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Kentucky and Virginia are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 1,595 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Kentucky | 1,537 | not ranked | 3.4× |
| Virginia | 1,344 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Mississippi | 1,343 | not ranked | 3.6× |
| Tennessee | 1,158 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Louisiana | 1,122 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Arkansas | 995 | not ranked | 3.1× |
| North Carolina | 878 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| West Virginia | 742 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Oklahoma | 738 | not ranked | 2.1× |
Where Virgie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Virgie is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1910 it was given 3.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Virgie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 23,740 babies since 1880, Virgie is the most given (95% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Virgie
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Virgie and names like it
- Compare Virgie and VirgiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sVirgie peaked in 1918.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Virgie since 1910.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Virgie.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Virgie alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with VMost given first.