Entry № 11341 · Ukrainian origin

Vira Vira — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ VEE-rah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Ukrainian
Meaning
"Faith"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Ukrainian)

A name that means "faith".

Vira (Віра) is the Ukrainian and Slavic word for "faith" — one of the three theological virtue names (Vira, Nadiya, Lyubov = Faith, Hope, Love).

Vira is widely used in Ukraine.

Faith. The Ukrainian theological virtue.

The name in its native script.

Віра
Transliteration
Vira
Pronunciation
/ ˈviː.rə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Vira stands.

Vira does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Viras before her.

Real people

In fiction
Vira
Common in Ukrainian fiction.

Names connected to Vira.

The number behind Vira.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Vira reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.