Viraat
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- vi-RAHT
- Origin
- Sanskrit
- US rank, 2025
- #7,675 for boys
Viraat is a boys' name of Sanskrit origin, meaning “immense, majestic”. In 2025 it ranked 7,675th for boys in the US (10 babies).
What does Viraat mean?
Sanskrit: spelling of Virat
“immense, majestic”
In the Mahabharata, King Virata shelters the Pandava brothers at his court during their final year of exile.
Meaning borrowed from Virat.
Is Viraat a girl's or a boy's name?
Viraat is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Viraat in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #7,675among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 10about 1 in 170,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 10 boys in the US were named Viraat, making it the 7,675th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,497th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 20 boys. It first appears in the records in 2009.
Half of all the boys named Viraat in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 57 boys in the US were given Viraat or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,037, up from #7,675 for this spelling alone.
- Virat 47
- Viraat 10
Viraat in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,675 |
| 2024 | 8 | #8,982 |
| 2023 | 10 | #7,733 |
| 2022 | 6 | #10,855 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 10 | #7,497 |
| 2019 | 12 | #6,772 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,341 |
| 2017 | 16 | #5,522 |
| 2016 | 20 | #4,775 |
| 2015 | 19 | #4,888 |
| 2014 | 10 | #7,557 |
| 2013 | 10 | #7,532 |
| 2012 | 11 | #7,044 |
| 2011 | 9 | #8,072 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 7 | #9,859 |
Names like Viraat
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Vihaan Aarav Avyaan Veer Shivansh Atharv Vedansh Krishiv Vivaan Aviraj Ayansh Devansh
Other spellings of Viraat
More Sanskrit names
Maya Bodhi Arya Lila Arjun Rohan Kali Aryan Opal Arjan Aadhya Ishaan Siya Leena Veda India
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Viraat: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/viraat, updated 20 October 2026.