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Vivaan vs Viviana

American parents have registered 27,290 Vivianas since 1880, against 2,759 Vivaans. Viviana is still ahead, with 928 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Vivaan against Viviana, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Vivaan Viviana

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

Viviana has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1908 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2015, when Vivaan had 251 and Viviana had 745.

Side by side

  Vivaan Viviana
Total US births 2,75927,290
Most in one year 251928
Babies in 2025 108928
Estimated living today 2,70027,000
Median age today 818
Peak year 20152025
Best rank 884th boys331st girls
Rank in 2025 1,571st331st
First recorded 20061908
Girls / boys 0 / 2,75927,268 / 22

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 Vivianas alive today are over 18; half the Vivaans are over 8. That is 10 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Vivaan Viviana
England and Wales 648208
France 20180
Poland 6133
Scotland 137
Ireland 103

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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