Vihaan
Vihaan was given to 261 boys in 2025, #910 among boys’ names; 5,623 Americans have been recorded with it since 2004 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,580 Americans named Vihaan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 6 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vihaan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Vihaan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Vihaan is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Vihaan?
#910 among boys’ names, 2025
Vihaan fell from #640 in 2015 to #910 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.22 to 0.15 per 1,000.
491 babies in 2014, the peak
Vihaan peaked in 2014, when 491 boys were given it, #566 among boys’ names. The 261 births of 2025 are 53% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 261 | #910 | 0.15 |
| 2024 | 237 | #960 | 0.14 |
| 2023 | 282 | #859 | 0.16 |
| 2022 | 257 | #904 | 0.15 |
| 2021 | 303 | #808 | 0.17 |
| 2020 | 347 | #716 | 0.20 |
| 2019 | 431 | #629 | 0.24 |
| 2018 | 394 | #652 | 0.22 |
| 2017 | 383 | #666 | 0.21 |
| 2016 | 390 | #665 | 0.21 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 415 | #640 | 0.22 |
| 2014 | 491 | #566 | 0.26 |
| 2013 | 428 | #593 | 0.23 |
| 2012 | 366 | #651 | 0.19 |
| 2011 | 212 | #941 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 153 | #1,182 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 113 | #1,485 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 72 | #1,978 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 35 | #3,243 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 26 | #3,878 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 14 | #5,853 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 13 | #6,112 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Vihaan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Vihaan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Vihaan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vihaan, and how old are they?
5,580 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,623 Americans ever recorded as Vihaan. The median Vihaan alive today is 9 years old; half are between 6 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 3,839 people named Vihaan (5 women and girls, 3,834 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,993 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 994 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,580 |
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 Vihaan born?
The states with the most babies named Vihaan are California, Texas and New Jersey, with 50% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 48 | #613 | 1.5× |
| Texas | 46 | #659 | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 17 | #465 | 3.6× |
| North Carolina | 15 | #642 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 14 | #674 | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | #658 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 10 | #850 | 0.7× |
| New York | 9 | #1,286 | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 9 | #792 | 1.6× |
| Washington | 9 | #731 | 1.7× |
Where Vihaan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Vihaan is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 2004 it was given 3.6 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 Vihaan 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 12,402 babies since 1880, Vihaan is the most given (45% of them). In 2025 it was given to 261 of their 544 babies (48%), 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 Vihaan
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 Vihaan and names like it
- Compare Vihaan and VivaanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sVihaan peaked in 2014.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Vihaan since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Vihaan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Vihaan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with VMost given first.