In 2025, 108 US girls were named Vivien, making it the 1,854th most common girls’ name of the year, down 136 places from #1,718 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 119 girls named Vivien in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #515, reached in 1911. The most girls given the name in a single year was 248, in 2014. For comparison, it was #1,087 in 2015 and #1,473 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Vivien in 136 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1885 with 5 babies. In all, 7,429 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,098 babies named Vivien.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,616 US girls were named Vivien; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 221. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,882 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Vivien ranked highest in Pennsylvania in 2025, at #868 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Vivian (230,755 babies since 1880), Viviana (27,290 babies since 1880), Vivienne (23,921 babies since 1880) and Vivianne (3,039 babies since 1880).