Vira
Vira was given to 26 girls in 2025, #5,088 among girls’ names; 1,274 Americans have been recorded with it since 1882 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vira by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Vira mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Vira is “a transliteration of the Ukrainian female given name diminutive Віра (Vira).” Its etymology gives the sense “Vera” (Ве́ра).
From Ukrainian Ві́ра (Víra), a calque of the female given name Ве́ра (Véra, “Vera”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Vira?
#5,088 among girls’ names, 2025
Vira rose from #11,782 in 2015 to #5,088 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.0 to 16.2 per million.
39 babies in 1916, the peak
Vira peaked in 1916, when 39 girls were given it, #1,144 among girls’ names. The 26 births of 2025 are 67% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #5,088 | 16.2 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,406 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,457 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,959 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,236 | 9.8 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,201 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,376 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,709 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 17 | #7,076 | 9.8 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,782 | 5.0 |
Every recorded year (91)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 6 | #16,726 | 3.4 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,611 | 6.1 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,283 | 4.2 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,848 | 4.6 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,534 | 5.0 |
| 1960 | 8 | #5,157 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,612 | 6.4 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,916 | 5.5 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,901 | 5.5 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,727 | 4.1 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,955 | 5.1 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,471 | 6.4 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,788 | 5.4 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,811 | 3.9 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,278 | 3.5 |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,219 | 4.7 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,338 | 6.5 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,229 | 6.8 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,653 | 5.7 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,535 | 4.6 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,672 | 6.0 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,671 | 4.3 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,807 | 8.9 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,837 | 9.1 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,951 | 8.7 |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,578 | 10.9 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,440 | 11.8 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,728 | 10.3 |
| 1936 | 26 | #1,477 | 25.0 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,568 | 11.4 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,914 | 9.6 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,395 | 12.9 |
| 1932 | 17 | #2,030 | 15.9 |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,301 | 13.1 |
| 1930 | 16 | #2,196 | 14.2 |
| 1929 | 22 | #1,763 | 19.7 |
| 1928 | 28 | #1,539 | 24.3 |
| 1927 | 19 | #2,090 | 15.9 |
| 1926 | 19 | #2,070 | 16.0 |
| 1925 | 19 | #2,116 | 15.6 |
| 1924 | 24 | #1,807 | 19.2 |
| 1923 | 21 | #1,941 | 17.4 |
| 1922 | 25 | #1,724 | 20.8 |
| 1921 | 28 | #1,620 | 22.7 |
| 1920 | 28 | #1,581 | 23.4 |
| 1919 | 22 | #1,799 | 19.5 |
| 1918 | 34 | #1,328 | 29.4 |
| 1917 | 30 | #1,375 | 27.7 |
| 1916 | 39 | #1,144 | 37.3 |
| 1915 | 26 | #1,437 | 26.4 |
| 1914 | 16 | #1,735 | 21.0 |
| 1913 | 21 | #1,272 | 33.6 |
| 1912 | 14 | #1,537 | 25.1 |
| 1911 | 14 | #1,294 | 33.5 |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,765 | 22.7 |
| 1909 | 16 | #1,050 | 46.1 |
| 1908 | 14 | #1,133 | 41.9 |
| 1907 | 9 | #1,508 | 28.3 |
| 1906 | 15 | #1,000 | 50.8 |
| 1905 | 16 | #966 | 54.9 |
| 1904 | 12 | #1,091 | 43.6 |
| 1903 | 15 | #929 | 57.3 |
| 1902 | 13 | #1,022 | 49.2 |
| 1901 | 11 | #1,064 | 46.0 |
| 1900 | 16 | #968 | 53.4 |
| 1899 | 15 | #876 | 64.4 |
| 1898 | 10 | #1,168 | 38.6 |
| 1897 | 12 | #979 | 51.2 |
| 1896 | 21 | #706 | 88.3 |
| 1895 | 10 | #1,117 | 42.8 |
| 1894 | 10 | #1,059 | 44.9 |
| 1893 | 12 | #899 | 56.4 |
| 1892 | 14 | #829 | 65.9 |
| 1891 | 11 | #889 | 59.3 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,524 | 26.3 |
| 1889 | 12 | #798 | 67.3 |
| 1888 | 10 | #892 | 56.0 |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,194 | 37.6 |
| 1884 | 10 | #729 | 77.5 |
| 1883 | 5 | #1,046 | 44.5 |
| 1882 | 5 | #1,024 | 46.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Vira a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Vira has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 91 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Vira: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vira, and how old are they?
An estimated 337 Americans named Vira and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (27% of everyone recorded); the median is 65 years old and half are between 5 and 77. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,242 people named Vira (1,180 women and girls, 62 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 315 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,514 babies since 1880, Vira is the most given (84% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 42 babies (62%), again the most given.
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 Vira
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 Vira and names like it
- Compare Vira and VieraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sVira peaked in 1916.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Vira since 1910.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Vira.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Vira alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with VMost given first.