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Viaan vs Vianey

American parents have registered 3,732 Vianeys since 1880, against 1,618 Viaans. But in 2025 it was Viaan that was commoner, 58 babies to 33.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Viaan against Vianey, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Viaan Vianey

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 58 years in which either name was published, Vianey for 46 years and Viaan for 12 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Viaan Vianey
Total US births 1,6183,732
Most in one year 175170
Babies in 2025 5833
Estimated living today 1,6003,700
Median age today 620
Peak year 20192007
Best rank 1,118th boys1,402nd girls
Rank in 2025 2,363rd4,265th
First recorded 20121967
Girls / boys 0 / 1,6183,732 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Vianeys alive today are over 20; half the Viaans are over 6. That is 14 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Viaan and Vianey.