Virda

Last seen for girls in 1946 at #3,217

Peak · girls
1897 · 8 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
395
since 1888

Virda over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Virda has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201888peak #1,167, 1897girls
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1946#3,21710
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1944#2,94610
1943#3,2499
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1941#3,0309
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1939#4,2505
1938#2,73010
1937#3,8006
1936#4,1815
1935#3,7426
1934#2,9239
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1932#3,0479
1931#3,2268
1930#3,0559
1929#3,3948
1928#2,76811
1927#2,16917
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1925#3,3629
1924#4,4346
1923#2,91711
1922#2,61213
1921#1,98820
1920#2,07918
1919#3,8177
1918#2,28915
1917#1,84719
1916#3,9196
1915#2,52611
1914#2,8767
1913#2,5407
1912#1,54013
1911#2,4635
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1909#1,36910
1908#1,6767
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1906#1,7276
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1904#1,6596
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First appearance
1888

The first year at least five girls were named Virda! It came in at #1,276, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1888–1890, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Virda is popular in 1888

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Virda
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1946
Rise & fade · girls
9 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1888
  • Peaked 1897 at #1,167 (8 births)
  • Births halved by 1899, 2 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 29,275
  • Highest: 1 in 29,275 girls born in 1897 were named Virda (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 157,131 girls born in 1946 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1920s
  • 32.7% of all girls named Virda (129) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s5#1,276 (1888)#1,276
1890s30#1,167 (1897)#1,383
1900s36#1,369 (1909)#1,598
1910s90#1,540 (1912)#2,646
1920s129#1,988 (1921)#2,798
1930s67#2,730 (1938)#3,439
1940s38#2,946 (1944)#3,111

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.

Virda in 1888

girls
#1,276
5 births · 1 in 35,724 girls

Top girls' names in 1888

  1. #1Mary11,754
  2. #2Anna4,982
  3. #3Elizabeth3,224
  4. #4Emma3,087
  5. #5Margaret2,904
  6. #6Minnie2,654
  7. #7Bertha2,450
  8. #8Florence2,444
  9. #9Ethel2,374
  10. #10Bessie2,278
  11. #1,276Virda5
More about 1888

girls

178,622 girls got a published name in 1888; 1 in 35,724 of them was named Virda, which outranked 13.4% of the 1,474 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Virda
  1. #1,136Vita6
  2. #1,136Willia6
  3. #1,136Zillah6
  4. #1,276Virda5
  5. #1,276Adel5
  6. #1,276Adelle5
  7. #1,276Adina5

Tied with 198 names at #1,276; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1887
Risers
  1. ↑ 535Zilpha#1,147 → #612
  2. ↑ 511Eudora#1,147 → #636
  3. ↑ 478Lorraine#1,036 → #558
  4. ↑ 457Dillie#1,147 → #690
  5. ↑ 457Leanna#1,147 → #690
Fallers
  1. ↓ 643Anabel#633 → #1,276
  2. ↓ 583Tennessee#693 → #1,276
  3. ↓ 576Diana#560 → #1,136
  4. ↓ 576Hope#560 → #1,136
  5. ↓ 550Margaretha#586 → #1,136

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

See the top 100 for 1888 →