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Vivia vs Vivianna

American parents have registered 4,798 Viviannas since 1880, against 583 Vivias. Vivianna is still ahead, with 208 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Vivia 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 90 years in which either name was published, Vivianna for 54 years and Vivia for 36 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Vivia Vivianna
Total US births 5834,798
Most in one year 33221
Babies in 2025 17208
Estimated living today 4004,800
Median age today 912
Peak year 20232023
Best rank 4,276th girls1,116th girls
Rank in 2025 6,546th1,125th
First recorded 18871962
Girls / boys 583 / 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 Viviannas alive today are over 12; half the Vivias are over 9. That is 3 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 Vivianna.