Vira is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Vera, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Vira: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 26 in 2025. Its best rank was #706 in 1896.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #706 in 1896; #5,089 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Vira in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,089 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1896, at #706.
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Vira: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 26 girls in 2025. Peak: #706 in 1896 · most girls in one year: 39 (1916).
In 2025, 26 US girls were named Vira, making it the 5,089th most common girls’ name of the year, up 3,322 places from #8,411 in 2024. That is 13 more than the 13 girls named Vira in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #706, reached in 1896. The most girls given the name in a single year was 39, in 1916. For comparison, it was #11,787 in 2015 and #5,280 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Vira in 91 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 5 babies. In all, 1,274 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 233 babies named Vira.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 127 US girls were named Vira; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 26. In 2025 that was about 1 in 61,818 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Vera (149,854 babies since 1880) and Veera (719 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Vira in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #5,089 | — | — |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,411 | — | — |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,462 | — | — |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,964 | — | — |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,241 | — | — |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,206 | — | — |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,381 | — | — |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,714 | — | — |
| 2017 | 17 | #7,080 | — | — |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,787 | — | — |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,733 | — | — |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,612 | — | — |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,284 | — | — |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,849 | — | — |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,535 | — | — |
| 1960 | 8 | #5,158 | — | — |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,613 | — | — |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,917 | — | — |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,902 | — | — |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,728 | — | — |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,957 | — | — |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,472 | — | — |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,789 | — | — |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,812 | — | — |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,280 | — | — |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,220 | — | — |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,339 | — | — |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,231 | — | — |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,654 | — | — |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,537 | — | — |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,674 | — | — |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,672 | — | — |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,809 | — | — |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,839 | — | — |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,952 | — | — |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,580 | — | — |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,440 | — | — |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,729 | — | — |
| 1936 | 26 | #1,477 | — | — |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,570 | — | — |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,915 | — | — |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,396 | — | — |
| 1932 | 17 | #2,031 | — | — |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,302 | — | — |
| 1930 | 16 | #2,197 | — | — |
| 1929 | 22 | #1,764 | — | — |
| 1928 | 28 | #1,540 | — | — |
| 1927 | 19 | #2,091 | — | — |
| 1926 | 19 | #2,071 | — | — |
| 1925 | 19 | #2,117 | — | — |
| 1924 | 24 | #1,808 | — | — |
| 1923 | 21 | #1,941 | — | — |
| 1922 | 25 | #1,724 | — | — |
| 1921 | 28 | #1,620 | — | — |
| 1920 | 28 | #1,581 | — | — |
| 1919 | 22 | #1,799 | — | — |
| 1918 | 34 | #1,328 | — | — |
| 1917 | 30 | #1,375 | — | — |
| 1916 | 39 | #1,144 | — | — |
| 1915 | 26 | #1,437 | — | — |
| 1914 | 16 | #1,735 | — | — |
| 1913 | 21 | #1,272 | — | — |
| 1912 | 14 | #1,537 | — | — |
| 1911 | 14 | #1,294 | — | — |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,765 | — | — |
| 1909 | 16 | #1,050 | — | — |
| 1908 | 14 | #1,133 | — | — |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,508 | — | — |
| 1906 | 15 | #1,000 | — | — |
| 1905 | 16 | #966 | — | — |
| 1904 | 12 | #1,091 | — | — |
| 1903 | 15 | #929 | — | — |
| 1902 | 13 | #1,022 | — | — |
| 1901 | 11 | #1,064 | — | — |
| 1900 | 16 | #968 | — | — |
| 1899 | 15 | #876 | — | — |
| 1898 | 10 | #1,168 | — | — |
| 1897 | 12 | #979 | — | — |
| 1896 | 21 | #706 | — | — |
| 1895 | 10 | #1,117 | — | — |
| 1894 | 10 | #1,059 | — | — |
| 1893 | 12 | #899 | — | — |
| 1892 | 14 | #829 | — | — |
| 1891 | 11 | #889 | — | — |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,525 | — | — |
| 1889 | 12 | #798 | — | — |
| 1888 | 10 | #892 | — | — |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,194 | — | — |
| 1884 | 10 | #729 | — | — |
| 1883 | 5 | #1,046 | — | — |
| 1882 | 5 | #1,024 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).