Vivaan
Vivaan was given to 108 boys in 2025, #1,584 among boys’ names; 2,759 Americans have been recorded with it since 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,740 Americans named Vivaan 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 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vivaan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Vivaan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Vivaan is “a male given name from Sanskrit.” Its etymology gives the sense “plaiting, twisting” (विवान).
Borrowed from Hindi विवान (vivān), from Sanskrit विवान (vivāna, “plaiting, twisting”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Vivaan?
#1,584 among boys’ names, 2025
Vivaan fell from #887 in 2015 to #1,584 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.13 to 0.06 per 1,000.
251 babies in 2015, the peak
Vivaan peaked in 2015, when 251 boys were given it, #887 among boys’ names. The 108 births of 2025 are 43% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 108 | #1,584 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 88 | #1,853 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 151 | #1,282 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 122 | #1,495 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 96 | #1,708 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 147 | #1,258 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 251 | #878 | 0.14 |
| 2018 | 220 | #949 | 0.12 |
| 2017 | 219 | #954 | 0.12 |
| 2016 | 223 | #941 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 251 | #887 | 0.13 |
| 2014 | 224 | #946 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 162 | #1,127 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 169 | #1,105 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 113 | #1,458 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 82 | #1,803 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 47 | #2,659 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 35 | #3,279 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 35 | #3,244 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 16 | #5,508 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Vivaan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Vivaan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 20 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Vivaan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vivaan, and how old are they?
2,740 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,759 Americans ever recorded as Vivaan. The median Vivaan alive today is 9 years old; half are between 6 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 2,012 people named Vivaan (15 women and girls, 1,997 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,069 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 492 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,250 |
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 Vivaan born?
The states with the most babies named Vivaan are Texas, California and New Jersey, with 74% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 23 | #1,038 | 1.0× |
| California | 14 | #1,358 | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 12 | #603 | 3.7× |
| Virginia | 7 | #963 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,425 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,456 | 0.7× |
Where Vivaan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Vivaan is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 2006 it was given 3.7 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 Vivaan 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, Vivaan is the second most given (22% of them). In 2025 it was given to 108 of their 544 babies (20%), again the second 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 Vivaan
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 Vivaan and names like it
- Compare Vivaan and VihaanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sVivaan peaked in 2015.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Vivaan since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Vivaan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Vivaan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Vivaan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with VMost given first.