Entry № 11345 · Latin origin

Virginia Virginia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ ver-JIN-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Maiden (Virginia Woolf, author of A Room of One's Own)"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "maiden (virginia woolf, author of a room of one's own)".

Virginia is from the Latin virgo (maiden). Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) — the British modernist novelist whose Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), Orlando (1928), and The Waves (1931) reshaped 20th-century fiction; her extended essay A Room of One's Own (1929) declared that "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction" — among the texts of feminist criticism. The state of Virginia is named for Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen."

Subject of Stephen Daldry's The Hours (2002 film).

Maiden (Virginia Woolf, author of A Room of One's Own) — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Virginia
Transliteration
Virginia
Pronunciation
/ vərˈdʒɪn.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Virginia stands.

Virginia does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Virginias before her.

Real people
Virginia Woolf
British modernist novelist.
1882 – 1941
Virginia Apgar
American obstetrical anesthesiologist.
1909 – 1974
In fiction
Virginia
The Hours.
2002 film

Names connected to Virginia.

The number behind Virginia.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Virginia reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.