Vira

Where Vira comes from

Vira hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1882
    First appearance
    #908 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1884
    Peak, #686
    10 babies named Vira — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1885
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,047.
  4. 1926
    Vira Vovk born
    Ukrainian writer, critic, and translator
  5. 1945
    Vira Misevych born
    Ukrainian Soviet equestrian
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Vira Vovk · Ukrainian writer, critic, and translator, 1926–2022
  • Vira Misevych · Ukrainian Soviet equestrian, 1945–1995
  • Vira Hyrych · Ukrainian journalist and radio producer, 1967–2022
  • Vira Silenti · actress, 1931–2014
  • Vira Zozulya · Ukrainian racewalker, born 1970

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.