Viraaj
#5,045 for boys in 2025, 19 births
- Peak · boys
- 2016 · 61 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 579since 2006
Viraaj over time
Rank among boys' names. Viraaj has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,045 | 19 |
| 2024 | #3,524 | 32 |
| 2023 | #3,347 | 35 |
| 2022 | #3,995 | 27 |
| 2021 | #3,427 | 33 |
| 2020 | #2,235 | 61 |
| 2019 | #2,364 | 57 |
| 2018 | #2,325 | 57 |
| 2017 | #2,240 | 59 |
| 2016 | #2,207 | 61 |
| 2015 | #3,365 | 33 |
| 2014 | #4,014 | 25 |
| 2013 | #4,463 | 21 |
| 2012 | #8,158 | 9 |
| 2011 | #4,983 | 18 |
| 2010 | #8,139 | 9 |
| 2009 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | #12,553 | 5 |
| 2007 | #9,788 | 7 |
| 2006 | #12,055 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Viraaj! It came in at #12,055, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2006–2009, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
Where Viraaj is popular in 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Washington#848 · 1 in 5,528
- New Jersey#983 · 1 in 7,863
- California#1,513 · 1 in 17,238
- Florida#1,724 · 1 in 18,042
- Texas#2,159 · 1 in 28,209
Best ever in a state: #661 in New Jersey, 2015.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Washington | #848 | 6 | 1 in 5,528 |
| New Jersey | #983 | 5 | 1 in 7,863 |
| California | #1,513 | 11 | 1 in 17,238 |
| Florida | #1,724 | 5 | 1 in 18,042 |
| Texas | #2,159 | 6 | 1 in 28,209 |
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See more about Viraaj
- 1,521 spots since 2024 (#3,524 → #5,045)
- 2,810 spots since 2020 (#2,235 → #5,045)
- 1,680 spots since 2015 (#3,365 → #5,045)
- Debuted 2006
- Peaked 2016 at #2,207 (61 births)
- Births halved by 2022, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 28,296 boys born in 2020 were named Viraaj (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 89,899 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,207 in 2016, was only 1 in 31,110 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 60.3% of all boys named Viraaj (349) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 23 | #9,788 (2007) | #11,348 |
| 2010s | 349 | #2,207 (2016) | #4,226 |
| 2020s | 207 | #2,235 (2020) | #3,596 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Viraaj in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 28,296 of them was named Viraaj, which outranked 84.1% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,212Tenzin62
- #2,212Von62
- #2,212Willis62
- #2,235Viraaj61
- #2,235Ammon61
- #2,235Azari61
- #2,235Baruch61
- #2,264Abhiram60
- #2,264Aiyden60
- #2,264Alias60
Tied with 28 names at #2,235; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.