Virat
Virat was given to 47 boys in 2025, #2,758 among boys’ names; 491 Americans have been recorded with it since 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Virat by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Virat?
#2,758 among boys’ names, 2025
Virat rose from #3,142 in 2015 to #2,758 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 19.3 to 27.5 per million.
54 babies in 2019, the peak
Virat peaked in 2019, when 54 boys were given it, #2,483 among boys’ names. The 47 births of 2025 are 87% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47 | #2,758 | 27.5 |
| 2024 | 33 | #3,516 | 19.2 |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,222 | 22.2 |
| 2022 | 33 | #3,527 | 18.9 |
| 2021 | 44 | #2,857 | 25.2 |
| 2020 | 22 | #4,527 | 12.7 |
| 2019 | 54 | #2,483 | 30.1 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,097 | 20.9 |
| 2017 | 42 | #2,884 | 22.7 |
| 2016 | 44 | #2,773 | 23.2 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 37 | #3,142 | 19.3 |
| 2014 | 30 | #3,609 | 15.6 |
| 2013 | 13 | #6,575 | 6.9 |
| 2012 | 10 | #8,101 | 5.3 |
| 2011 | 6 | #12,198 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Virat a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Virat has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 15 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Virat: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Virat, and how old are they?
An estimated 487 Americans named Virat 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 10. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 370 people named Virat (4 women and girls, 366 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 278 born in the U.S. The Census count is 33% 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.
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 662 babies since 1880, Virat is the most given (74% of them). In 2025 it was given to 47 of their 57 babies (82%), 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 Virat
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 Virat and names like it
- Compare Virat and ViraatBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sVirat peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Virat since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Virat.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Virat alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with VMost given first.