Vian
Vian was given to 28 boys in 2025, #3,941 among boys’ names; 365 Americans have been recorded with it since 2004 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vian by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Vian?
#3,941 among boys’ names, 2025
Vian rose from #4,286 in 2015 to #3,941 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 12.5 to 16.4 per million.
35 babies in 2020, the peak
Vian peaked in 2020, when 35 babies were given it (30 boys, #3,647 among boys’ names). The 28 births of 2025 are 80% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #3,941 | 16.4 |
| 2024 | 20 | #5,045 | 11.6 |
| 2023 | 30 | #3,795 | 17.5 |
| 2022 | 24 | #4,427 | 13.7 |
| 2021 | 27 | #3,995 | 15.4 |
| 2020 | 30 | #3,647 | 17.4 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,789 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 23 | #4,467 | 12.7 |
| 2017 | 28 | #3,878 | 15.1 |
| 2016 | 27 | #3,978 | 14.2 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #4,286 | 12.5 |
| 2014 | 13 | #6,599 | 6.8 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,654 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,818 | 4.7 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,842 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 7 | #10,595 | 3.4 |
| 2005 | 8 | #9,048 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 5 | #13,113 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Vian a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 365 Americans recorded as Vian, 9% are girls and 91% boys. In 2025 it went to 28 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Vian: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vian, and how old are they?
An estimated 362 Americans named Vian and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 11. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 525 people named Vian (312 women and girls, 213 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 208 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Vian?
Vian is a less common spelling of Viaan: SSA has recorded 365 Vian and 1,618 Viaan since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 13,705 babies since 1880, Vian is the eighth most given (2.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 28 of their 545 babies (5.1%), the fifth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Vian
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Vian and names like it
- Compare Vian and ViaanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sVian peaked in 2020.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Vian since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Vian.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Vian alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with VMost given first.