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Vivi vs Vivianna

American parents have registered 4,798 Viviannas since 1880, against 728 Vivis. Vivianna is still ahead, with 208 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Vivi against Vivianna, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Vivi Vivianna

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 63 years in which either name was published, Vivianna for 54 years and Vivi for 9 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Vivi Vivianna
Total US births 7284,798
Most in one year 49221
Babies in 2025 49208
Estimated living today 7104,800
Median age today 1412
Peak year 20252023
Best rank 3,211th girls1,116th girls
Rank in 2025 3,211th1,125th
First recorded 19461962
Girls / boys 728 / 04,798 / 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 Vivis alive today are over 14; half the Viviannas are over 12. That is 2 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 Vivi Vivianna
England and Wales 3943

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: Vivi and Vivianna.