Meaning not yet researched.
Vivian: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 3,362 in 2025. Its best rank was #64 in 1920.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #64 in 1920; #72 in 2025. About 99.8% of babies named Vivian in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#72 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1920, at #64.
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Vivian: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 3,362 girls in 2025. Peak: #64 in 1920 · most girls in one year: 4,128 (1920).
In 2025, 3,362 US girls were named Vivian, making it the 72nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 5 places from #77 in 2024. That is 266 more than the 3,096 girls named Vivian in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #64, reached in 1920. That year also had the most girls given the name: 4,128. For comparison, it was #95 in 2015 and #138 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Vivian in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 29 babies with the name. In all, 230,755 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 37,162 babies named Vivian.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 29,424 US girls were named Vivian; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 3,362. In 2025 that was about 1 in 478 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Vivian ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #19 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 37 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Viviana (27,290 babies since 1880), Vivienne (23,921 babies since 1880), Vivien (7,429 babies since 1880) and Vivianne (3,039 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Bibiana, Viviane and Vivan are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Vi and Viv.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Bibiana (1,463), Viviane (1,014), Vivan (821), Viviann (668), Viviano (190), Vivyan (122), Vivin (104), Vivion (92), Viviene (66), Vyvyan (37), Vyvian (36), Bibian (23), and more.
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so every state is listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 120 | #19 | #44 |
| Iowa | 68 | #25 | #70 |
| Michigan | 163 | #29 | #66 |
| Montana | 18 | #31 | — |
| New Hampshire | 29 | #32 | #72 |
| Ohio | 201 | #32 | #73 |
| Missouri | 106 | #34 | #69 |
| South Dakota | 19 | #36 | #62 |
| Indiana | 115 | #37 | #81 |
| Maine | 20 | #38 | #78 |
| Kentucky | 73 | #42 | #145 |
| Louisiana | 65 | #43 | #73 |
| Kansas | 50 | #43 | #58 |
| Wisconsin | 80 | #48 | #53 |
| North Dakota | 16 | #48 | #95 |
| Vermont | 9 | #48 | #103 |
| Mississippi | 35 | #48 | #150 |
| Massachusetts | 104 | #49 | #63 |
| Nebraska | 31 | #50 | #48 |
| Illinois | 146 | #51 | #53 |
| Alabama | 61 | #54 | #115 |
| Arkansas | 41 | #56 | #101 |
| Oklahoma | 50 | #58 | #109 |
| Pennsylvania | 142 | #60 | #90 |
| Idaho | 28 | #63 | #178 |
| Washington | 86 | #67 | #95 |
| Virginia | 89 | #69 | #107 |
| Rhode Island | 11 | #75 | #58 |
| Wyoming | 6 | #78 | #131 |
| North Carolina | 117 | #78 | #114 |
| Utah | 52 | #79 | #87 |
| New Mexico | 16 | #81 | #150 |
| Maryland | 47 | #89 | #101 |
| New York | 149 | #96 | #105 |
| Oregon | 34 | #97 | #87 |
| Connecticut | 29 | #97 | #110 |
| West Virginia | 16 | #99 | #120 |
| Tennessee | 70 | #103 | #145 |
| District of Columbia | 8 | #107 | #59 |
| Alaska | 7 | #111 | #181 |
| Delaware | 8 | #114 | #124 |
| Colorado | 46 | #117 | #113 |
| Georgia | 80 | #120 | #168 |
| Texas | 253 | #126 | #116 |
| Florida | 127 | #139 | #192 |
| Arizona | 47 | #139 | #188 |
| Hawaii | 6 | #166 | #77 |
| South Carolina | 29 | #167 | #131 |
| Nevada | 15 | #177 | #166 |
| California | 179 | #184 | #102 |
| New Jersey | 45 | #185 | #119 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3,362 | #72 | 5 | #13,778 |
| 2024 | 3,096 | #77 | — | — |
| 2023 | 2,808 | #87 | — | — |
| 2022 | 2,674 | #104 | 7 | #10,773 |
| 2021 | 2,695 | #101 | — | — |
| 2020 | 2,705 | #101 | — | — |
| 2019 | 2,934 | #96 | — | — |
| 2018 | 2,976 | #96 | 12 | #7,103 |
| 2017 | 3,032 | #97 | — | — |
| 2016 | 3,142 | #95 | — | — |
| 2015 | 3,204 | #95 | — | — |
| 2014 | 3,063 | #97 | 5 | #13,960 |
| 2013 | 2,651 | #120 | 7 | #10,666 |
| 2012 | 2,264 | #141 | — | — |
| 2011 | 2,022 | #153 | 5 | #14,232 |
| 2010 | 1,943 | #158 | 5 | #14,147 |
| 2009 | 1,964 | #164 | 7 | #10,915 |
| 2008 | 1,639 | #206 | 7 | #10,982 |
| 2007 | 1,640 | #210 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,536 | #224 | 8 | #9,542 |
| 2005 | 1,560 | #223 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,425 | #231 | — | — |
| 2003 | 1,453 | #224 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,275 | #249 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,020 | #312 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,178 | #272 | — | — |
| 1999 | 1,114 | #281 | — | — |
| 1998 | 912 | #325 | — | — |
| 1997 | 908 | #320 | 5 | #10,758 |
| 1996 | 897 | #314 | 7 | #7,931 |
| 1995 | 867 | #317 | 11 | #5,486 |
| 1994 | 921 | #299 | — | — |
| 1993 | 931 | #295 | 12 | #4,986 |
| 1992 | 909 | #307 | 10 | #5,638 |
| 1991 | 852 | #316 | 11 | #5,083 |
| 1990 | 553 | #447 | 8 | #6,384 |
| 1989 | 465 | #507 | 9 | #5,590 |
| 1988 | 428 | #517 | 6 | #7,238 |
| 1987 | 429 | #500 | 5 | #8,098 |
| 1986 | 443 | #485 | — | — |
| 1985 | 408 | #498 | 7 | #5,756 |
| 1984 | 412 | #489 | 8 | #4,952 |
| 1983 | 411 | #481 | 11 | #3,874 |
| 1982 | 393 | #512 | — | — |
| 1981 | 351 | #536 | 5 | #7,245 |
| 1980 | 409 | #498 | 6 | #6,212 |
| 1979 | 456 | #449 | — | — |
| 1978 | 348 | #529 | 5 | #6,730 |
| 1977 | 361 | #518 | — | — |
| 1976 | 377 | #486 | 7 | #4,918 |
| 1975 | 423 | #453 | — | — |
| 1974 | 505 | #401 | 10 | #3,552 |
| 1973 | 526 | #388 | 6 | #5,072 |
| 1972 | 569 | #378 | — | — |
| 1971 | 660 | #362 | 9 | #3,651 |
| 1970 | 776 | #339 | 12 | #2,888 |
| 1969 | 810 | #319 | 9 | #3,304 |
| 1968 | 914 | #288 | 5 | #4,729 |
| 1967 | 1,056 | #260 | 7 | #3,545 |
| 1966 | 1,058 | #260 | 10 | #2,773 |
| 1965 | 1,253 | #245 | 9 | #2,972 |
| 1964 | 1,511 | #224 | 8 | #3,273 |
| 1963 | 1,745 | #204 | 7 | #3,635 |
| 1962 | 1,747 | #206 | 13 | #2,360 |
| 1961 | 1,894 | #194 | 19 | #1,947 |
| 1960 | 2,022 | #188 | 14 | #2,311 |
| 1959 | 2,184 | #177 | 27 | #1,558 |
| 1958 | 2,206 | #172 | 13 | #2,364 |
| 1957 | 2,432 | #153 | 20 | #1,834 |
| 1956 | 2,560 | #148 | 12 | #2,491 |
| 1955 | 2,357 | #154 | 21 | #1,724 |
| 1954 | 2,275 | #156 | 28 | #1,465 |
| 1953 | 2,358 | #149 | 22 | #1,674 |
| 1952 | 2,508 | #142 | 22 | #1,662 |
| 1951 | 2,405 | #138 | 18 | #1,834 |
| 1950 | 2,269 | #138 | 12 | #2,316 |
| 1949 | 2,327 | #136 | 20 | #1,701 |
| 1948 | 2,424 | #126 | 25 | #1,485 |
| 1947 | 2,483 | #128 | 33 | #1,296 |
| 1946 | 2,424 | #120 | 27 | #1,380 |
| 1945 | 2,168 | #118 | 16 | #1,769 |
| 1944 | 2,022 | #129 | 22 | #1,480 |
| 1943 | 2,321 | #122 | 26 | #1,397 |
| 1942 | 2,203 | #125 | 32 | #1,243 |
| 1941 | 2,280 | #113 | 30 | #1,228 |
| 1940 | 2,261 | #115 | 25 | #1,365 |
| 1939 | 1,868 | #128 | 32 | #1,166 |
| 1938 | 1,797 | #135 | 30 | #1,220 |
| 1937 | 1,910 | #127 | 20 | #1,574 |
| 1936 | 2,015 | #115 | 38 | #1,048 |
| 1935 | 2,124 | #112 | 31 | #1,224 |
| 1934 | 2,413 | #98 | 23 | #1,459 |
| 1933 | 2,378 | #98 | 47 | #923 |
| 1932 | 2,662 | #90 | 55 | #867 |
| 1931 | 2,893 | #82 | 42 | #1,048 |
| 1930 | 2,872 | #91 | 43 | #1,068 |
| 1929 | 3,101 | #81 | 54 | #922 |
| 1928 | 3,310 | #78 | 42 | #1,093 |
| 1927 | 3,510 | #77 | 67 | #821 |
| 1926 | 3,430 | #80 | 53 | #942 |
| 1925 | 3,576 | #76 | 49 | #982 |
| 1924 | 3,850 | #71 | 53 | #976 |
| 1923 | 3,831 | #69 | 67 | #834 |
| 1922 | 3,733 | #74 | 68 | #829 |
| 1921 | 4,103 | #68 | 65 | #867 |
| 1920 | 4,128 | #64 | 72 | #790 |
| 1919 | 3,640 | #72 | 73 | #759 |
| 1918 | 3,663 | #72 | 65 | #816 |
| 1917 | 3,119 | #79 | 61 | #818 |
| 1916 | 3,049 | #77 | 60 | #802 |
| 1915 | 2,857 | #78 | 46 | #924 |
| 1914 | 2,080 | #81 | 59 | #665 |
| 1913 | 1,727 | #83 | 43 | #709 |
| 1912 | 1,487 | #84 | 34 | #754 |
| 1911 | 1,211 | #80 | 24 | #642 |
| 1910 | 801 | #107 | 16 | #781 |
| 1909 | 652 | #111 | 15 | #752 |
| 1908 | 561 | #121 | 20 | #582 |
| 1907 | 572 | #116 | 20 | #557 |
| 1906 | 489 | #129 | 13 | #705 |
| 1905 | 492 | #128 | 15 | #635 |
| 1904 | 470 | #126 | 19 | #513 |
| 1903 | 432 | #128 | 14 | #617 |
| 1902 | 425 | #132 | 9 | #859 |
| 1901 | 342 | #146 | 12 | #633 |
| 1900 | 383 | #152 | 18 | #602 |
| 1899 | 250 | #172 | 10 | #711 |
| 1898 | 308 | #162 | 20 | #472 |
| 1897 | 241 | #177 | 10 | #720 |
| 1896 | 224 | #183 | 18 | #497 |
| 1895 | 216 | #183 | 16 | #527 |
| 1894 | 212 | #184 | 12 | #629 |
| 1893 | 185 | #191 | 9 | #765 |
| 1892 | 152 | #205 | 12 | #638 |
| 1891 | 108 | #234 | 10 | #633 |
| 1890 | 103 | #241 | 7 | #877 |
| 1889 | 83 | #260 | 10 | #671 |
| 1888 | 77 | #266 | 7 | #913 |
| 1887 | 66 | #261 | 13 | #513 |
| 1886 | 49 | #299 | 6 | #956 |
| 1885 | 51 | #279 | 6 | #931 |
| 1884 | 33 | #348 | 12 | #569 |
| 1883 | 33 | #313 | 7 | #795 |
| 1882 | 27 | #347 | 5 | #1,091 |
| 1881 | 24 | #337 | 9 | #650 |
| 1880 | 22 | #351 | 7 | #804 |
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).