Virlan is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Verlin, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Virlan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 16 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,437 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,437 in 2018; #5,836 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Virlan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,836 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #3,437.
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Virlan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 16 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,437 in 2018 · most boys in one year: 33 (2018).
In 2025, 16 US boys were named Virlan, making it the 5,836th most common boys’ name of the year, up 609 places from #6,445 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 14 boys named Virlan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,437, reached in 2018. That year also had the most boys given the name: 33. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Virlan in 10 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2016 with 9 babies. In all, 194 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 97 babies named Virlan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 194 US boys were named Virlan; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 33. In 2025 that was about 1 in 106,755 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Verlin (4,104 babies since 1880) and Verlyn (1,920 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 Virlan 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.
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).