Viet
Viet was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 1,096 Americans have been recorded with it between 1975 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,040 Americans named Viet and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 26 and 44.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Viet by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Viet?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #14,051, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
65 babies in 1982, the peak
Viet peaked in 1982, when 65 boys were given it, #1,139 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #14,051 | 2.9 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,611 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 5 | #14,128 | 2.7 |
| 2016 | 6 | #12,079 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 8 | #9,499 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 7 | #10,640 | 3.6 |
| 2013 | 13 | #6,573 | 6.9 |
| 2012 | 7 | #10,696 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 7 | #10,714 | 3.7 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,676 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 14 | #6,406 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 18 | #5,231 | 8.8 |
| 2007 | 20 | #4,794 | 9.6 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,286 | 8.3 |
| 2005 | 22 | #4,184 | 11.0 |
| 2004 | 18 | #4,779 | 9.1 |
| 2003 | 25 | #3,615 | 12.7 |
| 2002 | 21 | #4,031 | 10.8 |
| 2001 | 19 | #4,290 | 9.8 |
| 2000 | 20 | #4,052 | 10.2 |
| 1999 | 12 | #5,632 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,631 | 7.8 |
| 1997 | 16 | #4,229 | 8.5 |
| 1996 | 25 | #3,010 | 13.2 |
| 1995 | 24 | #3,010 | 12.6 |
| 1994 | 35 | #2,299 | 18.1 |
| 1993 | 30 | #2,498 | 15.3 |
| 1992 | 29 | #2,521 | 14.5 |
| 1991 | 42 | #1,887 | 20.8 |
| 1990 | 18 | #3,451 | 8.8 |
| 1989 | 32 | #2,197 | 16.0 |
| 1988 | 31 | #2,081 | 16.2 |
| 1987 | 44 | #1,609 | 23.6 |
| 1986 | 42 | #1,585 | 22.8 |
| 1985 | 34 | #1,789 | 18.4 |
| 1984 | 45 | #1,442 | 24.9 |
| 1983 | 56 | #1,238 | 31.2 |
| 1982 | 65 | #1,139 | 35.8 |
| 1981 | 47 | #1,394 | 26.2 |
| 1980 | 34 | #1,722 | 19.1 |
| 1979 | 30 | #1,864 | 17.4 |
| 1978 | 30 | #1,791 | 18.3 |
| 1977 | 17 | #2,657 | 10.3 |
| 1976 | 36 | #1,535 | 22.9 |
| 1975 | 23 | #2,060 | 14.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Viet a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,096 Americans recorded as Viet, 1% are girls and 99% boys.
Girls and boys named Viet: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Viet, and how old are they?
1,040 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,096 Americans ever recorded as Viet. The median Viet alive today is 37 years old; half are between 26 and 44.
The 2020 Census counted 4,026 people named Viet (258 women and girls, 3,768 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,054 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.8 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 160 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 573 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 259 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 52 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Viet born?
The states with the most babies named Viet are California, Texas and Kansas, with 99% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Kansas is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 317 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Texas | 80 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Kansas | 6 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Viet is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Viet is most over-represented in California: since 1975 it was given 2.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Viet with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Viet
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 Viet and names like it
- Compare Viet and JonmichaelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sViet peaked in 1982.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Viet since 1910.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Viet.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Viet alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with VMost given first.