Vira
#4,987 for girls in 2025, 26 births
- Peak · girls
- 1884 · 10 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,274since 1882
Vira over time
Rank among girls' names. Vira has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,987 | 26 |
| 2024 | #7,967 | 13 |
| 2023 | #8,055 | 13 |
| 2022 | #6,707 | 17 |
| 2021 | #6,967 | 16 |
| 2020 | #9,546 | 10 |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 |
| 2018 | #12,464 | 7 |
| 2017 | #6,808 | 17 |
| 2016 | — | |
| 2015 | #10,866 | 9 |
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| 2012 | #14,962 | 6 |
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| 1967 | #4,300 | 10 |
| 1966 | — | |
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| 1964 | — | |
| 1963 | #4,896 | 8 |
| 1962 | #4,533 | 9 |
| 1961 | #4,239 | 10 |
| 1960 | #4,773 | 8 |
| 1959 | #3,436 | 13 |
| 1958 | #3,747 | 11 |
| 1957 | — | |
| 1956 | #3,696 | 11 |
| 1955 | #4,376 | 8 |
| 1954 | #3,718 | 10 |
| 1953 | #3,269 | 12 |
| 1952 | #3,552 | 10 |
| 1951 | #4,385 | 7 |
| 1950 | #4,738 | 6 |
| 1949 | #3,892 | 8 |
| 1948 | #3,137 | 11 |
| 1947 | #3,061 | 12 |
| 1946 | #3,430 | 9 |
| 1945 | #4,025 | 6 |
| 1944 | #3,378 | 8 |
| 1943 | #4,196 | 6 |
| 1942 | #2,666 | 12 |
| 1941 | #2,668 | 11 |
| 1940 | #2,737 | 10 |
| 1939 | #2,417 | 12 |
| 1938 | #2,340 | 13 |
| 1937 | #2,570 | 11 |
| 1936 | #1,445 | 26 |
| 1935 | #2,439 | 12 |
| 1934 | #2,741 | 10 |
| 1933 | #2,275 | 13 |
| 1932 | #1,957 | 17 |
| 1931 | #2,205 | 14 |
| 1930 | #2,110 | 16 |
| 1929 | #1,704 | 22 |
| 1928 | #1,502 | 28 |
| 1927 | #2,026 | 19 |
| 1926 | #1,997 | 19 |
| 1925 | #2,018 | 19 |
| 1924 | #1,770 | 24 |
| 1923 | #1,895 | 21 |
| 1922 | #1,682 | 25 |
| 1921 | #1,577 | 28 |
| 1920 | #1,550 | 28 |
| 1919 | #1,745 | 22 |
| 1918 | #1,299 | 34 |
| 1917 | #1,337 | 30 |
| 1916 | #1,127 | 39 |
| 1915 | #1,405 | 26 |
| 1914 | #1,665 | 16 |
| 1913 | #1,229 | 21 |
| 1912 | #1,477 | 14 |
| 1911 | #1,241 | 14 |
| 1910 | #1,634 | 9 |
| 1909 | #1,015 | 16 |
| 1908 | #1,084 | 14 |
| 1907 | #1,384 | 9 |
| 1906 | #965 | 15 |
| 1905 | #926 | 16 |
| 1904 | #1,050 | 12 |
| 1903 | #896 | 15 |
| 1902 | #972 | 13 |
| 1901 | #1,007 | 11 |
| 1900 | #941 | 16 |
| 1899 | #835 | 15 |
| 1898 | #1,098 | 10 |
| 1897 | #931 | 12 |
| 1896 | #688 | 21 |
| 1895 | #1,053 | 10 |
| 1894 | #998 | 10 |
| 1893 | #865 | 12 |
| 1892 | #796 | 14 |
| 1891 | #839 | 11 |
| 1890 | #1,338 | 5 |
| 1889 | #757 | 12 |
| 1888 | #837 | 10 |
| 1887 | — | |
| 1886 | — | |
| 1885 | #1,047 | 5 |
| 1884 | #686 | 10 |
| 1883 | #920 | 5 |
| 1882 | #908 | 5 |
| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five girls were named Vira! It came in at #908, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1885–1887, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Vira is popular in 1917
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#855 · 1 in 9,453
Best ever in a state: #403 in Mississippi, 1936.
Show every state
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| Texas | #855 | 5 | 1 in 9,453 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Vira
- 2,980 spots since 2024 (#7,967 → #4,987)
- 4,559 spots since 2020 (#9,546 → #4,987)
- 5,879 spots since 2015 (#10,866 → #4,987)
- Biggest jump: 499 spots in 1891 (#1,338 → #839)
- Biggest drop: 581 spots in 1890 (#757 → #1,338)
- Debuted 1882
- Peaked 1884 at #686 (10 births)
- Births halved by 1885, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 17 yrs · run 1891–1894
- Highest: 1 in 11,329 girls born in 1896 were named Vira (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 61,818 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #686 in 1884, was only 1 in 12,902 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 18.3% of all girls named Vira (233) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 47 | #686 (1884) | #859 |
| 1890s | 120 | #688 (1896) | #944 |
| 1900s | 137 | #896 (1903) | #1,024 |
| 1910s | 225 | #1,127 (1916) | #1,416 |
| 1920s | 233 | #1,502 (1928) | #1,772 |
| 1930s | 144 | #1,445 (1936) | #2,250 |
| 1940s | 93 | #2,666 (1942) | #3,319 |
| 1950s | 88 | #3,269 (1953) | #3,880 |
| 1960s | 45 | #4,239 (1961) | #4,548 |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 0 | — | — |
| 2010s | 47 | #6,808 (2017) | #11,291 |
| 2020s | 95 | #4,987 (2025) | #7,372 |
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.
Vira in 1917
Top girls' names in 1917
More about 1917
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1,081,267 girls got a published name in 1917; 1 in 36,042 of them was named Vira, which outranked 74.8% of the 5,310 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,307Wanetta31
- #1,307Williemae31
- #1,307Wylma31
- #1,337Vira30
- #1,337Alleen30
- #1,337Ardelia30
- #1,337Arletta30
- #1,377Aimee29
- #1,377Albena29
- #1,377Bobby29
Tied with 39 names at #1,337; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.