Meaning not yet researched.
Viva: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 22 in 2025. Its best rank was #445 in 1894.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #445 in 1894; #5,711 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Viva in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,711 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1894, at #445.
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Viva: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 22 girls in 2025. Peak: #445 in 1894 · most girls in one year: 103 (1921).
In 2025, 22 US girls were named Viva, making it the 5,711th most common girls’ name of the year, up 435 places from #6,146 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 20 girls named Viva in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #445, reached in 1894. The most girls given the name in a single year was 103, in 1921. For comparison, it was #7,985 in 2015 and #2,531 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Viva in 126 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 7 babies. In all, 3,605 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1910s, with 722 babies named Viva.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 125 US girls were named Viva; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 22. In 2025 that was about 1 in 73,058 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Veva (1,598 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Vieva are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Vieva (68).
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 Viva 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 | 22 | #5,711 | — | — |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,146 | — | — |
| 2023 | 8 | #12,121 | — | — |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,641 | — | — |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,948 | — | — |
| 2020 | 8 | #12,080 | — | — |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,575 | — | — |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,394 | — | — |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,313 | — | — |
| 2016 | 11 | #10,076 | — | — |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,985 | — | — |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,195 | — | — |
| 2013 | 18 | #7,018 | — | — |
| 2012 | 10 | #11,206 | — | — |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,750 | — | — |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,880 | — | — |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,388 | — | — |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,560 | — | — |
| 2007 | 5 | #20,417 | — | — |
| 2004 | 6 | #16,013 | — | — |
| 2003 | 5 | #18,317 | — | — |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,983 | — | — |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,781 | — | — |
| 1984 | 5 | #12,136 | — | — |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,692 | — | — |
| 1982 | 5 | #12,279 | — | — |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,794 | — | — |
| 1979 | 8 | #8,042 | — | — |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,934 | — | — |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,881 | — | — |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,278 | — | — |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,977 | — | — |
| 1974 | 16 | #4,034 | — | — |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,959 | — | — |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,539 | — | — |
| 1971 | 22 | #3,160 | — | — |
| 1970 | 23 | #3,026 | — | — |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,456 | — | — |
| 1968 | 26 | #2,481 | — | — |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,333 | — | — |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,187 | — | — |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,799 | — | — |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,509 | — | — |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,528 | — | — |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,777 | — | — |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,231 | — | — |
| 1960 | 19 | #2,900 | — | — |
| 1959 | 11 | #4,021 | — | — |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,183 | — | — |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,529 | — | — |
| 1956 | 23 | #2,386 | — | — |
| 1955 | 27 | #2,106 | — | — |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,886 | — | — |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,806 | — | — |
| 1952 | 9 | #4,113 | — | — |
| 1951 | 17 | #2,573 | — | — |
| 1950 | 17 | #2,531 | — | — |
| 1949 | 18 | #2,407 | — | — |
| 1948 | 24 | #2,006 | — | — |
| 1947 | 25 | #1,988 | — | — |
| 1946 | 21 | #2,089 | — | — |
| 1945 | 27 | #1,620 | — | — |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,195 | — | — |
| 1943 | 24 | #1,789 | — | — |
| 1942 | 28 | #1,588 | — | — |
| 1941 | 39 | #1,221 | — | — |
| 1940 | 40 | #1,169 | — | — |
| 1939 | 42 | #1,131 | — | — |
| 1938 | 26 | #1,503 | — | — |
| 1937 | 42 | #1,115 | — | — |
| 1936 | 41 | #1,114 | — | — |
| 1935 | 31 | #1,327 | — | — |
| 1934 | 46 | #1,034 | — | — |
| 1933 | 45 | #1,049 | — | — |
| 1932 | 41 | #1,128 | — | — |
| 1931 | 45 | #1,059 | — | — |
| 1930 | 62 | #936 | — | — |
| 1929 | 43 | #1,135 | — | — |
| 1928 | 64 | #933 | — | — |
| 1927 | 64 | #953 | — | — |
| 1926 | 66 | #925 | — | — |
| 1925 | 70 | #889 | — | — |
| 1924 | 74 | #878 | — | — |
| 1923 | 85 | #792 | — | — |
| 1922 | 77 | #840 | — | — |
| 1921 | 103 | #727 | — | — |
| 1920 | 76 | #835 | — | — |
| 1919 | 92 | #734 | — | — |
| 1918 | 89 | #758 | — | — |
| 1917 | 96 | #707 | — | — |
| 1916 | 96 | #705 | — | — |
| 1915 | 81 | #742 | — | — |
| 1914 | 65 | #719 | — | — |
| 1913 | 69 | #625 | — | — |
| 1912 | 53 | #696 | — | — |
| 1911 | 46 | #640 | — | — |
| 1910 | 35 | #721 | — | — |
| 1909 | 30 | #746 | — | — |
| 1908 | 36 | #648 | — | — |
| 1907 | 40 | #587 | — | — |
| 1906 | 38 | #577 | — | — |
| 1905 | 39 | #563 | — | — |
| 1904 | 43 | #508 | — | — |
| 1903 | 30 | #606 | — | — |
| 1902 | 34 | #569 | — | — |
| 1901 | 28 | #601 | — | — |
| 1900 | 35 | #604 | — | — |
| 1899 | 38 | #479 | — | — |
| 1898 | 37 | #519 | — | — |
| 1897 | 36 | #490 | — | — |
| 1896 | 34 | #513 | — | — |
| 1895 | 36 | #492 | — | — |
| 1894 | 40 | #445 | — | — |
| 1893 | 22 | #627 | — | — |
| 1892 | 19 | #683 | — | — |
| 1891 | 23 | #558 | — | — |
| 1890 | 16 | #692 | — | — |
| 1889 | 12 | #799 | — | — |
| 1888 | 9 | #956 | — | — |
| 1887 | 12 | #690 | — | — |
| 1886 | 14 | #631 | — | — |
| 1885 | 14 | #605 | — | — |
| 1884 | 20 | #462 | — | — |
| 1883 | 10 | #649 | — | — |
| 1882 | 9 | #674 | — | — |
| 1880 | 7 | #734 | — | — |
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).