Vivian
The girl's name Vivian has been in the national records since 1880, with 230,755 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 70th. About 127,000 Vivians are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 31.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Vivian boys named Vivian
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 230,755
- Estimated living today
- 127,000
- Median age today
- 31
- Peak year
- 1920
- Best rank
- 64th
- Rank in 2025
- 70th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 228,172 / 2,583
How old the living Vivians are
born that year still alive today
Of the 230,755 babies given the name since 1880, about 127,000 are alive — 55 in every hundred. Roughly 48,000 of them are children and 40,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1994 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Latin
Early saints' name from Latin Vīviānus, and of its feminine form Vīviāna, probably from vīvus (“alive”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Vivians
- Vivian Maier (1926–2009)French-American photographer
- Vivian Cheruiyot (born 1983)Kenyan long-distance runner
- Vivian Woodward (1879–1954)English footballer
- Vivian Campbell (born 1962)Northern Irish guitarist
- Vivian Kong Man-wai (born 1994)member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, Hong Kong female politician, and ex-Hong Kong female fencer
- Vivian Fuchs (1908–1999)British explorer
- Vivian Wu (born 1966)Chinese actress
- Vivian Hsu (born 1975)Taiwanese actress and singer
People named Vivian with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Vivian is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Vivian is most concentrated in North Dakota (1.7×), South Dakota (1.5×), South Carolina (1.5×), the District of Columbia (1.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1920
The most popular girls’ names the year Vivian peaked:
Vivian elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Vivian | 1,965 | 365th |
| Norway girls | Vivian | 1,742 | 108th |
| England and Wales girls | Vivian | 662 | 834th |
| Italy girls | Vivian | 520 | — |
| Ireland girls | Vivian | 275 | 200th |
| Switzerland girls | Vivian | 197 | 308th |
| Ireland boys | Vivian | 88 | 130th |
| Poland girls | Vivian | 78 birth registrations | 357th |
| Scotland girls | Vivian | 57 | 290th |
| France girls | Vivian | 55 | 5,993rd |
| England and Wales boys | Vivian | 25 | 3,334th |
| Belgium boys | Vivian | 18 | 992nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Vivian: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Vivian | 161 | 0.013% | 231st |
| French girls | Switzerland | Vivian | 10 | 0.002% | 656th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Vivian | 26 | 0.040% | 81st |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Vivian is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.04% of children were given it – 25 of them.
Vivian: rank by region
In 2006, Vivian was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Vivian | 415 | 6 |
In 2024, Vivian was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Vivian | 334 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Vivian by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 18 | 332nd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Vivian among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Vivian | 2,973 | 3,680 |
| Finland girls | Vivian | 1,547 | 2,926 |
| the Netherlands boys | Vivian | 21 | 143 |
| Finland boys | Vivian | — | 6 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Vivian lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 852 women called Vivian were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palmas, Las | Vivian | 41 | 0.070 | 1,333 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Vivian | 38 | 0.069 | 1,228 |
| Araba/Álava | Vivian | 10 | 0.058 | 1,218 |
| Balears, Illes | Vivian | 34 | 0.054 | 1,220 |
| Barcelona | Vivian | 163 | 0.054 | 1,134 |
| Zaragoza | Vivian | 26 | 0.051 | 1,090 |
Listed in 31 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 21 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Vivian against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.