Meaning not yet researched.
Viraaj: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 19 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,225 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,225 in 2016; #5,192 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Viraaj in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,192 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #2,225.
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Viraaj: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 19 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,225 in 2016 · most boys in one year: 61 (2020).
In 2025, 19 US boys were named Viraaj, making it the 5,192nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,595 places from #3,597 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 32 boys named Viraaj in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,225, reached in 2016. The most boys given the name in a single year was 61, in 2020. For comparison, it was #3,424 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Viraaj in 20 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2006 with 5 babies. In all, 579 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 349 babies named Viraaj.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 441 US boys were named Viraaj; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 61. In 2025 that was about 1 in 89,899 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Viraj (1,937 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 Viraaj 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 | — | — | 19 | #5,192 |
| 2024 | — | — | 32 | #3,597 |
| 2023 | — | — | 35 | #3,409 |
| 2022 | — | — | 27 | #4,079 |
| 2021 | — | — | 33 | #3,490 |
| 2020 | — | — | 61 | #2,261 |
| 2019 | — | — | 57 | #2,391 |
| 2018 | — | — | 57 | #2,354 |
| 2017 | — | — | 59 | #2,267 |
| 2016 | — | — | 61 | #2,225 |
| 2015 | — | — | 33 | #3,424 |
| 2014 | — | — | 25 | #4,125 |
| 2013 | — | — | 21 | #4,610 |
| 2012 | — | — | 9 | #8,827 |
| 2011 | — | — | 18 | #5,185 |
| 2010 | — | — | 9 | #8,748 |
| 2009 | — | — | 6 | #12,402 |
| 2008 | — | — | 5 | #14,497 |
| 2007 | — | — | 7 | #10,855 |
| 2006 | — | — | 5 | #13,923 |
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).