I don't know if I'd care for it as a given name but I like the idea of someone bearing it in a voluntary kind of way. :-) It's sweet and while most people have heard it it's definitely unusual to see in real life.
I definitely prefer it as a nickname for
Virginia over
Ginny.
Ginny reminds me of a booze-related quasi-insulting nickname along the same lines as Rummy.
Motherland fatherland homeland native land.
It’s all the same. What the hell good to you
is your native land after you’re dead? Whose
native land is it after you’re dead?
Dalton Trumbo, JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN