Viggo
Viggo was given to 97 boys in 2025, #1,697 among boys’ names; 1,055 Americans have been recorded with it since 1913 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,020 Americans named Viggo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 3 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Viggo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Viggo mean?
Wiktionary, Swedish section
Viggo is “a male given name”
From Danish Viggo. First recorded in Sweden in 1851.
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swedish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Viggo?
#1,697 among boys’ names, 2025
Viggo rose from #2,913 in 2015 to #1,697 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 21.4 to 56.8 per million.
97 babies in 2025, the peak
Viggo peaked in 2025, when 97 boys were given it, #1,697 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 81 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 97 | #1,697 | 56.8 |
| 2024 | 81 | #1,954 | 47.0 |
| 2023 | 88 | #1,830 | 51.4 |
| 2022 | 73 | #2,079 | 41.8 |
| 2021 | 67 | #2,153 | 38.3 |
| 2020 | 41 | #2,918 | 23.8 |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,045 | 22.3 |
| 2018 | 48 | #2,631 | 26.4 |
| 2017 | 49 | #2,594 | 26.5 |
| 2016 | 37 | #3,154 | 19.5 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 41 | #2,913 | 21.4 |
| 2014 | 42 | #2,840 | 21.9 |
| 2013 | 41 | #2,842 | 21.7 |
| 2012 | 31 | #3,521 | 16.3 |
| 2011 | 32 | #3,425 | 16.8 |
| 2010 | 41 | #2,912 | 21.4 |
| 2009 | 43 | #2,842 | 21.7 |
| 2008 | 25 | #4,130 | 12.3 |
| 2007 | 26 | #4,000 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 21 | #4,508 | 10.2 |
| 2005 | 20 | #4,454 | 10.0 |
| 2004 | 35 | #2,946 | 17.6 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,786 | 4.6 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,295 | 4.8 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,691 | 4.5 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,854 | 4.6 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,496 | 5.6 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,485 | 13.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Viggo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Viggo has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Viggo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Viggo, and how old are they?
1,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,055 Americans ever recorded as Viggo. The median Viggo alive today is 8 years old; half are between 3 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 634 people named Viggo (2 women and girls, 632 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 588 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 280 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 740 |
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 Viggo born?
The states with the most babies named Viggo are Minnesota, California and New York, with 43% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 10 | #548 | 1.4× |
| California | 8 | #1,976 | 1.5× |
| New York | 5 | #2,024 | 0.5× |
| Utah | 5 | #804 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,078 | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,458 | 0.3× |
| Colorado | 5 | #953 | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,466 | 0.1× |
| Oregon | 5 | #698 | 0.4× |
Where Viggo is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Viggo is most over-represented in California: since 1913 it was given 1.5 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 Viggo with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,116 babies since 1880, Viggo is the most given (95% of them). In 2025 it was given to 97 of their 106 babies (92%), again the most given.
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 Viggo
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 Viggo and names like it
- Compare Viggo and VigoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sViggo peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Viggo since 1910.
- Swedish namesWiktionary’s origin for Viggo: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Viggo.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Viggo alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with VMost given first.