Vivan is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Vivian, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Vivan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 14 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,775 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,775 in 2016; #6,427 in 2025. About 70% of babies named Vivan in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,427 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #2,775.
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Vivan: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 14 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,775 in 2016 · most boys in one year: 44 (2016).
In 2025, 14 US boys were named Vivan, making it the 6,427th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,372 places from #5,055 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 20 boys named Vivan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,775, reached in 2016. That year also had the most boys given the name: 44. For comparison, it was #4,697 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 6 US girls were named Vivan, making it the 14,823rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 4,605 places from #10,218 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 10 girls named Vivan in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,451, reached in 1911. The most girls given the name in a single year was 11, in 1991. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Vivan in 70 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1911 with 6 babies. In all, 821 US babies have been given the name, 45% of them girls and 55% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 259 babies named Vivan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 258 US boys were named Vivan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 44. In 2025 that was about 1 in 122,005 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Vivian (230,755 babies since 1880), Vianey (3,732 babies since 1880), Vivianne (3,039 babies since 1880) and Vianney (2,633 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.
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 Vivan 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 | 6 | #14,823 | 14 | #6,427 |
| 2024 | 10 | #10,218 | 20 | #5,055 |
| 2023 | — | — | 26 | #4,209 |
| 2022 | — | — | 22 | #4,693 |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,518 | 20 | #4,925 |
| 2020 | 5 | #17,373 | 23 | #4,412 |
| 2019 | — | — | 30 | #3,712 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,573 | 35 | #3,297 |
| 2017 | — | — | 24 | #4,322 |
| 2016 | — | — | 44 | #2,775 |
| 2015 | — | — | 21 | #4,697 |
| 2014 | 5 | #19,065 | 27 | #3,884 |
| 2013 | — | — | 23 | #4,304 |
| 2012 | — | — | 18 | #5,235 |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,438 | 13 | #6,557 |
| 2010 | — | — | 8 | #9,639 |
| 2009 | — | — | 8 | #9,818 |
| 2008 | 5 | #20,327 | 5 | #14,499 |
| 2007 | — | — | 8 | #9,742 |
| 2006 | — | — | 8 | #9,541 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,362 | 5 | #13,265 |
| 2004 | 6 | #16,014 | — | — |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,694 | — | — |
| 2001 | 8 | #12,010 | — | — |
| 2000 | 7 | #13,102 | — | — |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,504 | — | — |
| 1997 | 7 | #12,035 | — | — |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,467 | — | — |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,561 | — | — |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,721 | — | — |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,468 | — | — |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,972 | — | — |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,383 | — | — |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,359 | — | — |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,782 | — | — |
| 1984 | 5 | #12,137 | — | — |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,997 | — | — |
| 1974 | 5 | #10,212 | — | — |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,415 | — | — |
| 1970 | 5 | #9,328 | — | — |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,995 | — | — |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,444 | — | — |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,995 | — | — |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,558 | — | — |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,552 | — | — |
| 1958 | 6 | #6,083 | — | — |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,357 | — | — |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,700 | — | — |
| 1954 | 7 | #5,132 | — | — |
| 1953 | 7 | #5,021 | — | — |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,399 | — | — |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,158 | — | — |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,862 | — | — |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,266 | — | — |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,197 | — | — |
| 1929 | — | — | 5 | #4,514 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,702 | 5 | #4,697 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,269 | 8 | #3,432 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,587 | — | — |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,654 | — | — |
| 1924 | 6 | #5,030 | — | — |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,630 | 5 | #4,862 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,644 | 6 | #4,289 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,440 | — | — |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,531 | — | — |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,274 | — | — |
| 1917 | 10 | #3,080 | 6 | #3,951 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,417 | 6 | #3,810 |
| 1914 | 5 | #4,175 | 5 | #3,740 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,451 | — | — |
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).