Vira

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Vera in BR Brazil, CZ Czechia, AR Argentina and 15 more, Вера in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye and 3 more, Віра in UA Ukraine and Vërä in EC Ecuador.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Vira is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Hindi given name39K records spelled Vira7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Ukraine, Singapore

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  Also written Vīra, Vīrā, Virã, Vírà

• English given name12K records spelled Vira22 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India, Australia, United Kingdom

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Vyra, Vìra, Vîrã, Virã, Vįrä

• Indonesian given name10K records spelled Vira5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, India, United States, Malaysia

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written 'Vira, Vira', Vîrâ

• a separate given name7.3K records spelled Vira6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, United States, Ukraine

  Also written Víra, Vīra, Vìra, Vīrā, Virá

• Khmer given name2.0K records spelled Vira2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Spain, United States, Ukraine

  Also written Vīra

• Catalan given name1.7K records spelled Vira8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, France, United States, Belgium

  Languages: Catalan, French

  Also written Vire-Sur-Lot, Vîra, Vïŕà, Vīra, Viran

• Czech given name1.1K records spelled Vira4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, Ukraine, India

  Languages: Czech, Slovak

  Also written Víra, Vìra

48 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Vira is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Kurdish, Always, at all times, constant and resolute

  as a word·kurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary

• A phylum consisting of all viruses, in the LHT viral classification scheme.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Portuguese, a traditional music and dance genre of northern Portugal

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In French, third-person singular past historic of virer

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Romanian, to bear, veer (change direction slightly)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Swedish, to wind (yarn on a roll), to roll

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 92 years between 1917–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Vira Boarman Whitehouseb. 1875USAmerican suffragette (1875–1957)
• Vera Leșcencob. 1923RUnot in their usual nameSoviet singer (1923–2009)
• Vira Vovkb. 1926BRUkrainian writer, critic, and translator (1926–2022)
• Vira Silentib. 1931ITactress
• Vira Misevychb. 1945UAUkrainian Soviet equestrian (1945–1995)
• Vira Hyrychb. 1967UAUkrainian journalist and radio producer
• Vira Zozulyab. 1970UAUkrainian racewalker
• Vira Lozinskyb. 1974ILIsraeli singer
• Vera Brezhnevab. 1982UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian-Russian pop-singer
• Vera Filatovab. 1982UAnot in their usual nameactress

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 411 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Vira?

We estimate roughly 501 thousand people bear Vira (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Vira have the most bearers?

Vira is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled вера.

Where is Vira most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vira is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 116 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.

How common is Vira compared with other names?

In Russia, Vira is the 43rd most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.

Is Vira a male or female name?

Vira is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.