Meaning not yet researched.
Viraj: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 144 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,150 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,150 in 2024; #1,338 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Viraj in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,338 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #1,150.
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Viraj: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 144 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,150 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 183 (2024).
In 2025, 144 US boys were named Viraj, making it the 1,338th most common boys’ name of the year, down 188 places from #1,150 in 2024. That is 39 fewer than the 183 boys named Viraj in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,150, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 183. For comparison, it was #1,766 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Viraj in 41 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1982 with 6 babies. In all, 1,937 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 823 babies named Viraj.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,224 US boys were named Viraj; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 183. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,862 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Viraj ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #602 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Viraaj (579 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Veeraj are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Veeraj (48).
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 Viraj in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 12 | #602 | — |
| Washington | 9 | #732 | #1,095 |
| California | 28 | #860 | #1,158 |
| Texas | 24 | #1,007 | #1,896 |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,014 | #1,521 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,083 | — |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,266 | — |
| New York | 6 | #1,744 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 144 | #1,338 |
| 2024 | — | — | 183 | #1,150 |
| 2023 | — | — | 132 | #1,402 |
| 2022 | — | — | 124 | #1,467 |
| 2021 | — | — | 128 | #1,430 |
| 2020 | — | — | 112 | #1,511 |
| 2019 | — | — | 107 | #1,573 |
| 2018 | — | — | 91 | #1,722 |
| 2017 | — | — | 106 | #1,551 |
| 2016 | — | — | 97 | #1,654 |
| 2015 | — | — | 87 | #1,766 |
| 2014 | — | — | 48 | #2,580 |
| 2013 | — | — | 58 | #2,249 |
| 2012 | — | — | 51 | #2,484 |
| 2011 | — | — | 43 | #2,793 |
| 2010 | — | — | 31 | #3,522 |
| 2009 | — | — | 42 | #2,891 |
| 2008 | — | — | 18 | #5,237 |
| 2007 | — | — | 21 | #4,632 |
| 2006 | — | — | 24 | #4,094 |
| 2005 | — | — | 31 | #3,312 |
| 2004 | — | — | 25 | #3,729 |
| 2003 | — | — | 21 | #4,104 |
| 2002 | — | — | 20 | #4,181 |
| 2001 | — | — | 21 | #3,966 |
| 2000 | — | — | 18 | #4,378 |
| 1999 | — | — | 20 | #3,825 |
| 1998 | — | — | 19 | #3,839 |
| 1997 | — | — | 16 | #4,235 |
| 1996 | — | — | 14 | #4,603 |
| 1995 | — | — | 9 | #6,385 |
| 1994 | — | — | 13 | #4,788 |
| 1993 | — | — | 6 | #8,657 |
| 1992 | — | — | 9 | #6,109 |
| 1991 | — | — | 6 | #8,196 |
| 1990 | — | — | 11 | #4,981 |
| 1989 | — | — | 7 | #6,904 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #7,236 |
| 1985 | — | — | 6 | #6,499 |
| 1984 | — | — | 6 | #6,287 |
| 1982 | — | — | 6 | #6,357 |
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).