Virginia

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Finnish
Danish
Norwegian

Origin and Meaning

Female form of Virginius ^{[1] [2]}

Related Names

Virginia	♀
Virginía	♀
Virginie	♀

See also Gina and Ginger

Name Day

Sweden

8 December

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1559 ^[1]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[3]		309	1543	0	0
Denmark[4]		102	n.a.	0	n.a
Norway[5]		47	94	0	0
Finland[6]		n.a.	549	n.a	1
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Virginia.

Sources: ^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
4. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
5. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi