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Virat

#2,758 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Virat has been given to 491 babies in the U.S. since 2011. In 2025 it ranked #2,758 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 54 recorded.

Babies named Virat, 2025

1 in 70,500

Virat over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Virat: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Sanskrit origin

Sanskrit

What Virat means

Virat is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Virat is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 491 boys were recorded with the name Virat between 2011 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 54 in 2019; its best national rank was #2,483 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,527 in 2020 to #2,758 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,142 in 2015 to #2,758 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Virat?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 70,500
47 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 36,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,758
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
48,893 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Virat 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 48,893 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Virat. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Virats were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Virat was born before 2019 — so the typical Virat is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
55.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
491
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2010s — 55.8% of all recorded uses (274).

Is Virat 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
+758
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,769
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+384
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.27×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
87.0%
Peak was 2019 (54)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,483
2019

Spellings of Virat

Virat is not the most common spelling — Ira is, with 57.8% against Virat's 0.51%.

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 Virat is used

Across 1910–2025, Virat was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 412,093 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Michigan1 in —
  4. 4New Jersey1 in —
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —
  7. 7Washington1 in —

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. Virat has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Virat around the world

Where Virat 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
    2012–2025
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2013–2024
    #1,964
    in 2024

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

Virat by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,758
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,769
Best rank ever
#2,483
2019
Peak year
2019
54 that year
First recorded
2011
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
491
Count in 2025
47

Names similar to Virat

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

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Sibling names for Virat

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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