Entry № 957 · 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
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Grammatical form
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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

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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.