Vivien vs Vivienne
American parents have registered 23,921 Viviennes since 1880, against 7,429 Viviens. Vivienne is still ahead, with 1,786 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Vivien 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 136 years in which either name was published, Vivien for 74 years and Vivienne for 62 years. The lead changed hands 37 times.
- 1885–1912 Vivien ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1913–1922 Vivienne ahead
- 1923–1929 Vivien ahead
- 1930–1933 Vivienne ahead
- 1934–1954 Vivien ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1961–1965 Vivienne ahead
- 1966–1998 Vivien ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 2001–2025 Vivienne ahead, apart from one short spell
25 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Vivien | Vivienne | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 7,429 | 23,921 |
| Most in one year | 248 | 1,786 |
| Babies in 2025 | 108 | 1,786 |
| Estimated living today | 5,300 | 22,000 |
| Median age today | 14 | 8 |
| Peak year | 2014 | 2025 |
| Best rank | 1,050th girls | 172nd girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 1,844th | 172nd |
| First recorded | 1885 | 1895 |
| Girls / boys | 7,403 / 26 | 23,921 / 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 Viviens alive today are over 14; half the Viviennes are over 8. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Vivien New York (2.4×), California (2.1×), Washington (1.5×)
- Vivienne Nevada (2.2×), New Hampshire (1.7×), Colorado (1.7×)
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 | Vivien | Vivienne |
|---|---|---|
| France | 9,595 | 1,685 |
| England and Wales | 591 | 1,793 |
| Switzerland | 600 | 1,215 |
| Ireland | 166 | 1,078 |
| Poland | 421 | 285 |
| Scotland | 179 | 360 |
| Northern Ireland | 12 | 8 |
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: Vivien and Vivienne.