Viyan is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Vihaan, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Viyan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 30 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,894 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,894 in 2019; #3,746 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Viyan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,746 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #2,894.
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Viyan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 30 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,894 in 2019 · most boys in one year: 43 (2019).
In 2025, 30 US boys were named Viyan, making it the 3,746th most common boys’ name of the year, down 537 places from #3,209 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 38 boys named Viyan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,894, reached in 2019. That year also had the most boys given the name: 43. For comparison, it was #3,677 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Viyan in 14 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2012 with 11 babies. In all, 418 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 212 babies named Viyan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 344 US boys were named Viyan; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 43. In 2025 that was about 1 in 56,936 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Vihaan (5,623 babies since 1880) and Viaan (1,618 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 Viyan 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.
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).