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Vivia vs Vivienne

American parents have registered 23,921 Viviennes since 1880, against 583 Vivias. Vivienne is still ahead, with 1,786 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Vivia against Vivienne, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Vivia Vivienne

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 131 years in which either name was published, Vivienne for 129 years and Vivia for 2 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Vivia Vivienne
Total US births 58323,921
Most in one year 331,786
Babies in 2025 171,786
Estimated living today 40022,000
Median age today 98
Peak year 20232025
Best rank 4,276th girls172nd girls
Rank in 2025 6,546th172nd
First recorded 18871895
Girls / boys 583 / 023,921 / 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.

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