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Viraj

#1,338 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Viraja

Viraj has been given to 1,937 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #1,338 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 183 recorded.

Babies named Viraj, 2025

1 in 23,000

Viraj over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Viraj: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Viraja

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Viraj means

Viraj is a form of Viraja.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Viraja.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,937 boys were recorded with the name Viraj between 1982 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 183 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,150 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,511 in 2020 to #1,338 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,766 in 2015 to #1,338 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Viraj?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 23,000
144 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 11,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,338
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
15,959 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Viraj sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 5002%

Put another way: gather 15,959 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Viraj. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Virajs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Viraj was born before 2018 — so the typical Viraj is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
42.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,937
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Choose a decade

2020s — 42.5% of all recorded uses (823).

Is Viraj 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
−188
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+173
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+428
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.66×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
78.7%
Peak was 2024 (183)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,150
2024

Spellings of Viraj

Viraj is not the most common spelling — Ira is, with 59.0% against Viraj's 2.1%.

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 Viraj is used

Across 2016–2025, Viraj was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 3,571 boys, against 1 in 12,407 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in 100,000).

128 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 3,571
  2. 2Washington1 in 5,882
  3. 3California1 in 7,692
  4. 4Illinois1 in 10,000
  5. 5Virginia1 in 11,111
  6. 6Texas1 in 12,500
  7. 7Georgia1 in 14,286
  8. 8New York1 in 20,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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.

Viraj around the world

Where Viraj 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
    1996–2025
    #1,007
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2022–2023
    #770
    in 2023
  • France
    2022–2022
    #5,826
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2005–2024
    #455
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2009–2013
    #499
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Viraj by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,338
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 173
Best rank ever
#1,150
2024
Peak year
2024
183 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,937
Count in 2025
144

Names similar to Viraj

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

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Sibling names for Viraj

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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