Vira
Vira is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 13 births. Its best rank was 706th, in 1896.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 130.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 191639 births
- Best rank
- #706in 1896
- Since 1882
- 1,248people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,248 girls have been named Vira in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 39 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1923, and the 1920s alone account for 19%. It has spent 13 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Vira | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 47 | |
| 1890s | 120 | |
| 1900s | 137 | |
| 1910s | 225 | |
| 1920s | 233 | |
| 1930s | 144 | |
| 1940s | 93 | |
| 1950s | 88 | |
| 1960s | 45 | |
| 2010s | 47 | |
| 2020s | 69 |
In 1916, its biggest year
Vira was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1916 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1916.
Names that rose and fell with Vira
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Vivapeak 1921
- Vestapeak 1918
- Elsiepeak 1918
- Lelapeak 1921
- Albertinepeak 1918
- Omapeak 1916
- Winniepeak 2024
- Verdiepeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.