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Vivia vs Viviana

American parents have registered 27,290 Vivianas since 1880, against 583 Vivias. Viviana is still ahead, with 928 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Vivia 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

Of the 116 years in which either name was published, Viviana for 94 years and Vivia for 22 years. The lead changed hands 7 times.

Side by side

  Vivia Viviana
Total US births 58327,290
Most in one year 33928
Babies in 2025 17928
Estimated living today 40027,000
Median age today 918
Peak year 20232025
Best rank 4,276th girls331st girls
Rank in 2025 6,546th331st
First recorded 18871908
Girls / boys 583 / 027,268 / 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 Vivias are over 9. That is 9 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 Viviana.