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Virna

Girls' name

Meaning and deeper origin uncertain

Virna has been given to 194 babies in the U.S. since 1920. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1965, with 38 recorded.

Babies named Virna, 1978

1 in 529,000

Virna over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Virna: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and deeper origin uncertain

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Virna means

Virna is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Virna is used in Italian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Virna is pronounced /ˈvir.na/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 194 girls were recorded with the name Virna between 1920 and 1978. Its highest annual count was 38 in 1965; its best national rank was #1,885 in 1965.

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 Virna?

Virna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1978, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1978
1 in 529,000
6 of 3,173,639 births
Among girls only
1 in 255,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1978
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
366,634 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Virna 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 1978 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 366,634 children born in 1978 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Virna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Virnas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Virna was born before 1969 — so the typical Virna is around 56 today.

Median birth year
1969
About 56 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
184
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (97).

Is Virna 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1965 (38)
Years since peak
60
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,885
1965

Spellings of Virna

Virna is not the most common spelling — Diana is, with 19.1% against Virna's 0.01%.

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 Virna is used

Across 1910–2025, Virna was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 594,149 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 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. Virna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Virna around the world

Where Virna 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
    1967–2001
    #4,364
    in 2001

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

Virna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,885
1965
Peak year
1965
38 that year
First recorded
1920
Last recorded
1978
All-time count
194
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Virna

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

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Sibling names for Virna

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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