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Viviana vs Viviann

American parents have registered 27,290 Vivianas since 1880, against 668 Vivianns. Viviana is still ahead, with 928 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Viviana Viviann

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

Viviana has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1908 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1924, when Viviana had 5 and Viviann had 5.

Side by side

  Viviana Viviann
Total US births 27,290668
Most in one year 92835
Babies in 2025 92835
Estimated living today 27,000650
Median age today 1812
Peak year 20252017
Best rank 331st girls4,147th girls
Rank in 2025 331st4,067th
First recorded 19081924
Girls / boys 27,268 / 22668 / 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 Vivianas alive today are over 18; half the Vivianns are over 12. That is 6 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.

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