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Vira

#5,088 in 2025Girls' name

Faith, belief, through Ві́ра

Vira has been given to 1,274 babies in the U.S. since 1882. In 2025 it ranked #5,088 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1916, with 39 recorded.

Babies named Vira, 2025

1 in 128,000

Vira over time, 1880–2025

Girls
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vira: meaning, origin, and history

Faith, belief, through Ві́ра

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Vira means

Vira belongs to the name family reached through Vira → Ві́ра. Its meaning is “faith, belief”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Ukrainian Ві́ра (Víra), a calque of the female given name Ве́ра (Véra, “Vera”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Vira (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Vira is used in English.

Vira comes through Ukrainian Ві́ра.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ві́ра.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,274 girls were recorded with the name Vira between 1882 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 39 in 1916; its best national rank was #706 in 1896.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,201 in 2020 to #5,088 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #11,782 in 2015 to #5,088 in 2025.

How common is Vira?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 128,000
26 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 61,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,088
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
88,382 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vira sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 88,382 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vira. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Viras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vira was born before 1924 — so the typical Vira is around 101 today.

Median birth year
1924
About 101 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
18.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
11.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
275
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 18.3% of all recorded uses (233).

Is Vira rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+3,318
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+5,113
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+6,694
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.89×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
66.7%
Peak was 1916 (39)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#706
1896

Spellings of Vira

Vira is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 17.5% against Vira's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Vira is used

Across 1910–2025, Vira was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,187,364 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in —
  2. 2North Carolina1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Vira has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Vira around the world

Where Vira ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2011–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Vira by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,088
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 5,113
Best rank ever
#706
1896
Peak year
1916
39 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,274
Count in 2025
26

Names similar to Vira

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Vira

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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