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It's never made the top 100 here. It was most popular between the 1940s and the 1980s, so there must be some around, but I've never met one. I think our lack of Virginias is partly because we don't have the state association, partly because the main famous bearer here was a novelist whose books are often on syllabi, but not popular favourites, and possibly because the UK is mostly non-rhotic and 'vuh gin yuh' isn't a particularly attractive sound?

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eta: have to say that the first thing I think of after Woolf is Golden Virginia tobacco (and people who smoke stinky roll-ups) But I like the look of it, and the image I get of green unspoilt forests.

This message was edited 8/23/2018, 1:46 PM