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    The surname Virgin

    An occupational surname, carried by 2,315 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex V625

    Virgin: #13,203 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Virgin #13,203, 2,315 people Virgin: #13,203 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Virgin #13,203, 2,315 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Virgin is more common than 91.9% of them.

    Origin

    From virgin, q.v. The sense of Mary, mother of Jesus, comes from the Christian belief in Jesus's virgin birth and Mary's freedom from sin. The river sense derives from the name of Thomas Virgin, a member of the first American party to see the river, led by Jedediah Smith in 1826. The town sense derives from the name of the river, along which it is located.

    Virgin is an occupational surname: named after the work an ancestor did.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 2,315 people named Virgin in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 133,367 Americans. That is up 6.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,179.

    #13,203
    rank among US surnames
    2,315
    people in 2010
    0.8
    per 100,000 Americans
    +6.2%
    change since 2000 (was #12,929)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #13,195Rizzuto2,316133,310
    #13,203Lamphere2,315133,367
    #13,210Wigfall2,314133,425

    Who is named Virgin

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    75% of people named Virgin identified as white (not Hispanic), 13% as Black (not Hispanic) and 8.1% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 75%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 13%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 8.1%
    • Two or more races 2.2%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 0.7%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Virgin

    Virgin has the Soundex code V625, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code V625.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Virgin come from?
    From virgin, q.v. The sense of Mary, mother of Jesus, comes from the Christian belief in Jesus's virgin birth and Mary's freedom from sin. The river sense derives from the name of Thomas Virgin, a member of the first American party to see the river, led by Jedediah Smith in 1826. The town sense…
    How common is the surname Virgin?
    2,315 people in the United States had the surname Virgin in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 133,367 Americans. It ranked 13,203rd of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Virgin?
    In the 2010 Census, 75% of people named Virgin identified as white (not Hispanic), and 13% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Virgin?
    Virgin is an occupational surname, named after the work an ancestor did.
    Is the surname Virgin getting more or less common?
    More common. 2,179 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,315 in 2010, up 6.2%.