Virta
surname · Latin script
Meaning: flow, stream, current
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/vɪɹtə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Virta is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 541(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 46K
- USUnited States1 in 2M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Virta itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Finland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 49 (measured from records)
- 1 in 541 (inferred from the name graph)
10,297 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Вирта in RU Russia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
flow, stream, current
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Virta counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
10,297 people counted by DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); MVČR — living population register 2017. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Virta is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In izh, flow, current
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, virtuous
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In urj-fin-pro, stream
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jalmari Virtab. 1884FIFinnish politician
- Nikolai Virtab. 1906RUSoviet writer, playwright and screenwriter (1906–1976)
- Olavi Virtab. 1915FIFinnish singer and actor (1915–1972)
- Pauli Virtab. 1945FIFinnish musician and voice actor
- Ilkka Juhani Virtab. 1961FIFinnish rector and historian
- Hannu Virtab. 1963FIice hockey player
- Pekka Virtab. 1969FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Tony Virtab. 1972FIFinnish ice hockey player and coach
- Sofia Virtab. 1990FIFinnish politician
- Patrik Virtab. 1996FIFinnish ice hockey player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 10K | #151 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 4.4K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 223 | #3,784 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 165 | #107,669 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 164 | #101,654 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 150 | #121,361 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 6 | #154,812 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #171,775 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Virta mean, and where does it come from?
- flow, stream, current Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Virta?
- A machine transcription gives /vɪɹtə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Virta have the most bearers?
- In Finland, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Virta, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled virta.
- Where is Virta most common?
- Virta is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 541 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Virta?
- In Finland, the national register counted 10,297 people named Virta, about 1 in 541 residents.
What do you want to know about Virta?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/virtaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Virta”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.