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Viridiana

#5,709 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Viridiana has been given to 4,273 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #5,709 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1995, with 233 recorded.

Babies named Viridiana, 2025

1 in 151,000

Viridiana over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Viridiana: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Viridiana means

Viridiana is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Viridiana is used in Spanish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Viridiana is pronounced /biɾiˈdjana/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,268 girls were recorded with the name Viridiana between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 233 in 1995; its best national rank was #840 in 1995.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,439 in 2020 to #5,709 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,019 in 2015 to #5,709 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Viridiana between 1992 and 1992. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1992; its best national rank was #9,757 in 1992.

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 Viridiana?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 73,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,709
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Viridiana 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 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Viridiana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Viridianas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Viridiana was born before 1998 — so the typical Viridiana is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
40.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
39.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,268
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 40.6% of all recorded uses (1,733).

Is Viridiana 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
+236
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,270
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+310
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
9.4%
Peak was 1995 (233)
Years since peak
30
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#840
1995

Spellings of Viridiana

Viridiana is the most-used spelling, taking 79.3% of the 5,382 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Viridiana is used

Across 1910–2025, Viridiana was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 19,747 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

012 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 8,333
  2. 2Arizona1 in 9,091
  3. 3Nevada1 in 9,091
  4. 4Texas1 in 14,286
  5. 5Illinois1 in 33,333
  6. 6Colorado1 in 50,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 100,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 100,000

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

Viridiana around the world

Where Viridiana 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.

  • France
    1974–1995
    #4,244
    in 1995

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Viridiana in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Viridiana. Linked forms have their own page here.

Verdiana

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Viridiana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,709
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,270
Best rank ever
#840
1995
Peak year
1995
233 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,268
Count in 2025
22

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,757
1992
Peak year
1992
5 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
1992
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

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

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Names with a curve like Viridiana

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Viridiana, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Viridiana

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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