Vian is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Vihaan, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Vian: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 28 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,650 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,650 in 2020; #3,942 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Vian in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,942 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #3,650.
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Vian: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 28 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,650 in 2020 · most boys in one year: 30 (2023).
In 2025, 28 US boys were named Vian, making it the 3,942nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,107 places from #5,049 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 20 boys named Vian in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,650, reached in 2020. The most boys given the name in a single year was 30, in 2023. For comparison, it was #4,288 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Vian in 18 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2004 with 5 babies. In all, 365 US babies have been given the name, 8.8% of them girls and 91% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 164 babies named Vian.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 253 US boys were named Vian; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 30. In 2025 that was about 1 in 61,003 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Vianey (3,732 babies since 1880), Vihaan (5,623 babies since 1880) and Viaan (1,618 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Vian in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 28 | #3,942 |
| 2024 | — | — | 20 | #5,049 |
| 2023 | — | — | 30 | #3,798 |
| 2022 | — | — | 24 | #4,431 |
| 2021 | — | — | 27 | #3,999 |
| 2020 | 5 | #17,361 | 30 | #3,650 |
| 2019 | — | — | 16 | #5,794 |
| 2018 | — | — | 23 | #4,471 |
| 2017 | 5 | #18,287 | 28 | #3,882 |
| 2016 | — | — | 27 | #3,979 |
| 2015 | — | — | 24 | #4,288 |
| 2014 | — | — | 13 | #6,604 |
| 2013 | — | — | 7 | #10,660 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,728 | 9 | #8,824 |
| 2007 | 5 | #20,404 | 7 | #10,848 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,909 | 7 | #10,602 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,355 | 8 | #9,055 |
| 2004 | — | — | 5 | #13,120 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).