Given name
Viral
“our precious son”
Viral is used as a given name. One Indian interpretation is “our precious son.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Indian interpretation is “our precious son.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Indian.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1981. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Viral through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 64
- 64 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1989
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1997. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 9 in 1989. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 765 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
People named Viral
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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