Viraj
Viraj was given to 144 boys in 2025, #1,338 among boys’ names; 1,937 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,920 Americans named Viraj and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Viraj by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Viraj?
#1,338 among boys’ names, 2025
Viraj rose from #1,766 in 2015 to #1,338 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 45.4 to 84.3 per million.
183 babies in 2024, the peak
Viraj peaked in 2024, when 183 boys were given it, #1,150 among boys’ names. The 144 births of 2025 are 79% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 144 | #1,338 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 183 | #1,150 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 132 | #1,402 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 124 | #1,467 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 128 | #1,430 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 112 | #1,511 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 107 | #1,573 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 91 | #1,722 | 0.05 |
| 2017 | 106 | #1,551 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 97 | #1,654 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 87 | #1,766 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 48 | #2,578 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 58 | #2,248 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 51 | #2,483 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 43 | #2,792 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 31 | #3,521 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 42 | #2,890 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 18 | #5,232 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 21 | #4,630 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 24 | #4,090 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 31 | #3,308 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 25 | #3,725 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 21 | #4,099 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 20 | #4,175 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 21 | #3,960 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 18 | #4,371 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 20 | #3,820 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 19 | #3,835 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 16 | #4,230 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 14 | #4,596 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 9 | #6,378 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,782 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,651 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 9 | #6,102 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 6 | #8,189 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 11 | #4,974 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,897 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 6 | #7,229 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,493 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 6 | #6,283 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,355 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Viraj a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Viraj has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Viraj: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Viraj, and how old are they?
1,920 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,937 Americans ever recorded as Viraj. The median Viraj alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 1,600 people named Viraj (86 women and girls, 1,514 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,130 born in the U.S. The Census count is 42% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 95 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 415 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,410 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Viraj born?
The states with the most babies named Viraj are California, Texas and New Jersey, with 63% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 28 | #860 | 1.5× |
| Texas | 24 | #1,007 | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 12 | #602 | 2.4× |
| Washington | 9 | #732 | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,014 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,083 | 0.6× |
| New York | 6 | #1,744 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,266 | 0.2× |
Where Viraj is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Viraj is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1982 it was given 2.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Viraj with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,516 babies since 1880, Viraj is the most given (77% of them). In 2025 it was given to 144 of their 163 babies (88%), 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 Viraj
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 Viraj and names like it
- Compare Viraj and ViraajBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sViraj peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Viraj since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Viraj.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Viraj alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with VMost given first.