Vira
A Slavic name that carries the word for "faith". In Poland it goes only to girls and stays uncommon enough that meeting one sticks with you, though more are born now than a decade back.
Vira Pronunciation
What Vira means
Where Vira comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Vira grows from Slavic roots, and among Ukrainians it names one thing plainly: faith. A Polish reader meets the same idea in the word wiara. Both come from the same old Slavic stock, so the name reads clearly to a Pole even in unfamiliar dress.
Vira stands first among three sisters from an early martyr story. Beside her come Nadiya and Liubov, hope and love. Their mother was Sophia, and the Ukrainian church keeps their feast on 30 September. So the name arrives already in good company, the first of the virtues rather than a stray sound.
There are no diminutives to soften it and no masculine form to answer it. The name holds its ground unchanged. A short Slavic noun does the full work of a name here. What it says in Ukrainian, and what wiara says in Polish, is faith.
How many people are named Vira
1 in 2282 women in Poland is named Vira. 9,883 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #365 among female names.
Vira's popularity over time
11 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #678 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2021. Still the #365 name among living women, even as it slips to #678 among newborns.
Where Vira is most popular
Vira is most popular in Lesser Poland, 172% above the national average (6 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Masovian (+161%) and Pomeranian (+40%). It is least common in Silesian and Greater Poland, 10% and 4% below average respectively.
-
Lesser Poland6 girls born+172%
-
Masovian9 girls born+161%
-
Pomeranian2 girls born+40%
-
Greater Poland2 girls born−4%
-
Silesian2 girls born−10%
Vira as a middle name
Vira is a first name for 9,883 women in Poland and a middle name for another 10, a 100/0 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 2502nd, between Vimbai (10) and Wenessa (10).
-
2500
10Vicky
-
2501
10Vimbai
-
250210Vira
-
2503
10Wenessa
-
2504
10Wira