Via

#6,546 for girls in 2025, 17 births

Peak · girls
2019 · 61 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
350
since 1957

Via over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Via has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201957peak #2,752, 2019girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
2025#6,54617
2024#5,30024
2023#5,75221
2022#4,79328
2021#4,24533
2020#3,84137
2019#2,75261
2018#4,00136
2017#9,34111
2016#8,87512
2015#9,48111
2014#10,9559
2013#14,5826
2012#16,8695
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First appearance
1957

The first year at least five girls were named Via! It came in at #6,086, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1957–1960, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Via is popular in 1957

No state had 5 or more girls named Via in 1957, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Via
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 1,246 spots since 2024 (#5,300 → #6,546)
  • 2,705 spots since 2020 (#3,841 → #6,546)
  • 2,935 spots since 2015 (#9,481 → #6,546)
Rise & fade · girls
62 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1957
  • Peaked 2019 at #2,752 (61 births)
  • Births halved by 2022, 3 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 27,514
  • Highest: 1 in 27,514 girls born in 2019 were named Via (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 94,545 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 46.0% of all girls named Via (161) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s5#6,086 (1957)#6,086
1960s6#5,851 (1961)#5,851
1970s0——
1980s6#9,110 (1981)#9,110
1990s0——
2000s12#13,704 (2009)#14,744
2010s161#2,752 (2019)#9,701
2020s160#3,841 (2020)#5,080

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Via in 1957

girls
#6,086
5 births · 1 in 408,970 girls

Top girls' names in 1957

  1. #1Mary61,102
  2. #2Susan45,954
  3. #3Linda44,517
  4. #4Debra42,728
  5. #5Karen40,591
  6. #6Deborah40,096
  7. #7Cynthia39,340
  8. #8Patricia39,283
  9. #9Barbara29,692
  10. #10Donna28,042
  11. #6,086Via5
More about 1957

girls

2,044,851 girls got a published name in 1957; 1 in 408,970 of them was named Via, which outranked 13.2% of the 7,015 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Via
  1. #5,377Zo6
  2. #5,377Zsazsa6
  3. #5,377Zula6
  4. #6,086Via5
  5. #6,086Adrean5
  6. #6,086Agustina5
  7. #6,086Aisha5

Tied with 929 names at #6,086; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1956
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,944Tammi#3,696 → #752
  2. ↑ 1,310Tamela#2,151 → #841
  3. ↑ 1,298Tammie#1,662 → #364
  4. ↑ 993Tia#1,968 → #975
  5. ↑ 676Tamera#1,287 → #611
Fallers
  1. ↓ 423Corliss#878 → #1,301
  2. ↓ 399Glynis#977 → #1,376
  3. ↓ 367Merrie#977 → #1,344
  4. ↓ 303Taryn#935 → #1,238
  5. ↓ 291Glendora#963 → #1,254

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1957 →