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Vivia vs Vivian

American parents have registered 230,755 Vivians since 1880, against 583 Vivias. Vivian is still ahead, with 3,367 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Vivia against Vivian, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Vivia Vivian

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

Vivian has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1887, when Vivia had 5 and Vivian had 79.

Side by side

  Vivia Vivian
Total US births 583230,755
Most in one year 334,200
Babies in 2025 173,367
Estimated living today 400127,000
Median age today 931
Peak year 20231920
Best rank 4,276th girls64th girls
Rank in 2025 6,546th70th
First recorded 18871880
Girls / boys 583 / 0228,172 / 2,583

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 Vivians alive today are over 31; half the Vivias are over 9. That is 22 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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