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Viviana vs Vivica

American parents have registered 27,290 Vivianas since 1880, against 958 Vivicas. Viviana is still ahead, with 928 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Viviana Vivica

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 1959, when Viviana had 12 and Vivica had 9.

Side by side

  Viviana Vivica
Total US births 27,290958
Most in one year 92897
Babies in 2025 9287
Estimated living today 27,000940
Median age today 1823
Peak year 20251998
Best rank 331st girls1,657th girls
Rank in 2025 331st11,932nd
First recorded 19081950
Girls / boys 27,268 / 22958 / 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 Vivicas alive today are over 23; half the Vivianas are over 18. That is 5 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 Vivica.