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Viana vs Vianca

American parents have registered 1,893 Viancas since 1880, against 830 Vianas. But in 2025 it was Viana that was commoner, 36 babies to 7.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Viana against Vianca, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Viana Vianca

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 57 years in which either name was published, Vianca for 35 years and Viana for 22 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Viana Vianca
Total US births 8301,893
Most in one year 4196
Babies in 2025 367
Estimated living today 8101,900
Median age today 1226
Peak year 20212006
Best rank 3,678th girls2,050th girls
Rank in 2025 3,975th11,932nd
First recorded 19161969
Girls / boys 830 / 01,893 / 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 Viancas alive today are over 26; half the Vianas are over 12. 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: Viana and Vianca.