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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.