Via
Via was given to 17 girls in 2025, #6,814 among girls’ names; 350 Americans have been recorded with it since 1957 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Via by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Via?
#6,814 among girls’ names, 2025
Via rose from #10,100 in 2015 to #6,814 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.2 to 10.6 per million.
61 babies in 2019, the peak
Via peaked in 2019, when 61 girls were given it, #2,782 among girls’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 28% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,814 | 10.6 |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,429 | 14.8 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,936 | 13.1 |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,896 | 17.1 |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,315 | 20.1 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,906 | 22.9 |
| 2019 | 61 | #2,782 | 36.3 |
| 2018 | 36 | #4,068 | 21.2 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,887 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,387 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #10,100 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,872 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,404 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 5 | #19,376 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 10 | #11,196 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 7 | #15,148 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 5 | #18,301 | 2.7 |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,377 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,545 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,972 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Via a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Via has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 20 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Via: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Via, and how old are they?
An estimated 346 Americans named Via and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 9. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 404 people named Via (378 women and girls, 26 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 197 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Via rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 8,289 babies since 1880, Via is the seventh most given (4.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 219 babies (7.8%), the sixth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Via
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Via and names like it
- Compare Via and VivaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sVia peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Via since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Via.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Via alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with VMost given first.