Vivian
Vivian is ranked 77th among girls in 2024 (3,088 births). Its best rank was 64th, in 1920.
- Rank in 2024
- #77up 10 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3,0880.19% of girls
- Peak year
- 19204,128 births
- Best rank
- #64in 1920
- Since 1880
- 227,375people given the name
The story in the numbers
224,797 girls have been named Vivian in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 4,128 births — 0.34% of all girls recorded that year.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1949, and the 1920s alone account for 16%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 32 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 2,578 boys have also been given it, 1.1% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Vivian | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 465 | |
| 1890s | 1,999 | |
| 1900s | 4,818 | |
| 1910s | 23,634 | |
| 1920s | 36,572 | |
| 1930s | 22,932 | |
| 1940s | 22,913 | |
| 1950s | 23,554 | |
| 1960s | 14,011 | |
| 1970s | 5,003 | |
| 1980s | 4,150 | |
| 1990s | 8,864 | |
| 2000s | 14,687 | |
| 2010s | 27,229 | |
| 2020s | 13,966 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Vivian was the 64th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1920 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Vivian
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rosalinepeak 1928
- Evelynpeak 1921
- Millicentpeak 1927
- Hellenpeak 1924
- Vitapeak 1921
- Carmellapeak 1922
- Miriampeak 1924
- Eleanorpeak 1920
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.