Virginia

girls:

651.8k births since 1880

#40 (99th percentile)

boys:

2k births since 1895

#2799 (39th percentile)

overall:

653.8k births since 1880

#89 (99th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Virginia".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
651,766
Peak Births
19,145
Peak Year
1921
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
99.2%
Current Percentile
48.6%
Peak Rank
#6
Current Rank
#487
Female statistics
Total Births
2,009
Peak Births
74
Peak Year
1927
First Recorded
1895
Peak Percentile
12.8%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#220
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Virginia

Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Virginia. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 61.0% confident that Virginia is pronounced as ver-JIH-nyuh. The next most likely pronunciation is ver-JIH-nee-uh, at 14.6% confidence.

ver-JIH-nyuh (3 syllables)
Verified
61.0% confidence
V ER0 JH IH1 N Y AH0
ver-JIH-nee-uh (4 syllables)
14.6% confidence
V ER0 JH IH1 N IY0 AH0
VER-jih-nyuh (3 syllables)
12.2% confidence
V ER1 JH IH0 N Y AH0
ver-JEE-nyuh (3 syllables)
12.2% confidence
V ER0 JH IY1 N Y AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Virginia. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Virginia, please vote using the thumbs up button.

ver-JEE-nuh (3 syllables)
3 names 1.6k births
V ER0 JH IY1 N AH0
ver-JIH-nuh (3 syllables)
1 name 1.6k births
V ER0 JH IH1 N AH0

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Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like V ER0 JH IH1 N Y AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.