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Vivianne vs Vivienne

American parents have registered 23,921 Viviennes since 1880, against 3,039 Viviannes. Vivienne is still ahead, with 1,786 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Vivianne 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 130 years in which either name was published, Vivienne for 127 years and Vivianne for 3 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Vivianne Vivienne
Total US births 3,03923,921
Most in one year 1581,786
Babies in 2025 1141,786
Estimated living today 2,80022,000
Median age today 108
Peak year 20182025
Best rank 1,413th girls172nd girls
Rank in 2025 1,769th172nd
First recorded 19151895
Girls / boys 3,039 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Viviannes alive today are over 10; half the Viviennes are over 8. That is 2 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Vivianne Vivienne
France 1,5751,685
England and Wales 471,793

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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