Message: "Re: Virginia" - Behind the Name

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Re: Virginia

by livieluvbug

12/9/2007, 6:22 PM

in reply to a message by Tergirl3

I don't like it. It is very dated which I normally love, but in this case I just don't like it.

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- khaotickharma

12/9/2007, 7:12 PM

I have to disagree about it being dated... just the other day at my job, I encountered a toddler named Mary Virginia! When I think of dated names, I think of the harsher sounding ones that probably weren't even that pretty in their generation, like Ethel, Bertha, and Beulah.

- kra (guest) +1

12/9/2007, 7:02 PM

Hmmmm, I feel the opposite. I like my share of dated names. Some I don't, some that have been popular on here, like Eleanor. But Virginia is wonderful. The flow is great, it's feminine yet very a nice solid name. Spunky, romantic, professional. The only down side. And there is ALWAYS a down side and there is just no such thing as a perfect name.... Is the "Virgin" part. But since it's such an established name, and a State that doesn't matter a whole lot.

Speaking of the State. Virginia is in no way a place name, Just as Carolina isn't. It's not at all like Dakota. But I'm sure you knew that!

- queenv

12/10/2007, 10:19 AM

I have to disagree that Virginia is not a place name. The state (at that time a colony) was named after Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen. So Virginia was a place. THEN it started to be used as a name, most notably, of course, by the parents of Virgina Dare, the first child born of English parents in the New World. They named her after the colony. Therefore, it was a place name first. The difference is that it started to be used as a personal name quite soon after being given as a place name, but that doesn't change the fact that it IS a place name.
I really don't care for Virginia, anyway. It has a clunky sound to me. And I really hate Ginny.

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