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Vishnu: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,116 in 2007.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,116 in 2007; #5,590 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Vishnu in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,590 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2007, at #2,116.
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Vishnu: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,116 in 2007 · most boys in one year: 65 (2007).
In 2025, 17 US boys were named Vishnu, making it the 5,590th most common boys’ name of the year, down 536 places from #5,054 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 20 boys named Vishnu in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,116, reached in 2007. That year also had the most boys given the name: 65. For comparison, it was #4,170 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Vishnu in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1977 with 6 babies. In all, 1,130 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 466 babies named Vishnu.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 239 US boys were named Vishnu; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 35. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,475 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
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Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 17 | #5,590 |
| 2024 | — | — | 20 | #5,054 |
| 2023 | — | — | 16 | #5,897 |
| 2022 | — | — | 29 | #3,873 |
| 2021 | — | — | 17 | #5,544 |
| 2020 | — | — | 20 | #4,848 |
| 2019 | — | — | 22 | #4,623 |
| 2018 | — | — | 34 | #3,367 |
| 2017 | — | — | 35 | #3,310 |
| 2016 | — | — | 29 | #3,769 |
| 2015 | — | — | 25 | #4,170 |
| 2014 | — | — | 35 | #3,226 |
| 2013 | — | — | 43 | #2,761 |
| 2012 | — | — | 31 | #3,525 |
| 2011 | — | — | 39 | #2,997 |
| 2010 | — | — | 33 | #3,373 |
| 2009 | — | — | 52 | #2,484 |
| 2008 | — | — | 46 | #2,716 |
| 2007 | — | — | 65 | #2,116 |
| 2006 | — | — | 49 | #2,512 |
| 2005 | — | — | 40 | #2,750 |
| 2004 | — | — | 48 | #2,373 |
| 2003 | — | — | 45 | #2,390 |
| 2002 | — | — | 45 | #2,334 |
| 2001 | — | — | 34 | #2,794 |
| 2000 | — | — | 42 | #2,328 |
| 1999 | — | — | 31 | #2,792 |
| 1998 | — | — | 31 | #2,707 |
| 1997 | — | — | 18 | #3,870 |
| 1996 | — | — | 21 | #3,399 |
| 1995 | — | — | 20 | #3,425 |
| 1994 | — | — | 13 | #4,789 |
| 1993 | — | — | 10 | #5,754 |
| 1992 | — | — | 8 | #6,659 |
| 1991 | — | — | 8 | #6,500 |
| 1990 | — | — | 11 | #4,982 |
| 1989 | — | — | 5 | #9,175 |
| 1988 | — | — | 6 | #7,237 |
| 1986 | — | — | 6 | #6,696 |
| 1985 | — | — | 6 | #6,500 |
| 1984 | — | — | 5 | #7,303 |
| 1982 | — | — | 7 | #5,606 |
| 1981 | — | — | 7 | #5,450 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,821 |
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).