Vivan
Vivan is given to both girls and boys: 6 girls and 14 boys were given it in 2025 (#14,819 among girls’ names and #6,423 among boys’, #10,598 among all names counting both); 821 Americans have been recorded with it since 1911 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vivan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Vivan mean?
Wiktionary, Swedish section
Vivan is “a female given name” Its etymology gives the sense “cowslip” (gullviva).
A diminutive of Viveka and Vivianne, also associated with the flower name gullviva (“cowslip”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swedish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Vivan?
#6,423 among boys’ names, 2025
Vivan fell from #4,695 in 2015 to #6,423 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 11.0 to 8.2 per million.
44 babies in 2016, the peak
Vivan peaked in 2016, when 44 boys were given it, #2,774 among boys’ names. The 20 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 45% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,819 | 14 | #6,423 |
| 2024 | 10 | #10,213 | 20 | #5,051 |
| 2023 | under 5 | 26 | #4,205 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 22 | #4,689 | |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,513 | 20 | #4,921 |
| 2020 | 5 | #17,368 | 23 | #4,408 |
| 2019 | under 5 | 30 | #3,709 | |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,568 | 35 | #3,294 |
| 2017 | under 5 | 24 | #4,318 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 44 | #2,774 |
Every recorded year (70)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 21 | #4,695 | |
| 2014 | 5 | #19,059 | 27 | #3,881 |
| 2013 | under 5 | 23 | #4,302 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 18 | #5,229 | |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,430 | 13 | #6,551 |
| 2010 | under 5 | 8 | #9,632 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 8 | #9,813 | |
| 2008 | 5 | #20,321 | 5 | #14,491 |
| 2007 | under 5 | 8 | #9,736 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 8 | #9,535 | |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,355 | 5 | #13,257 |
| 2004 | 6 | #16,008 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,687 | under 5 | |
| 2001 | 8 | #12,003 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 7 | #13,094 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,496 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 7 | #12,030 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,460 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,555 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,715 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,461 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,965 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,377 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,354 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,777 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 5 | #12,132 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,995 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | 5 | #10,210 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,413 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 5 | #9,327 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,993 | under 5 | |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,443 | under 5 | |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,994 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,557 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,551 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 6 | #6,082 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,356 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,698 | under 5 | |
| 1954 | 7 | #5,130 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | 7 | #5,020 | under 5 | |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,397 | under 5 | |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,156 | under 5 | |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,860 | under 5 | |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,264 | under 5 | |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,195 | under 5 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 5 | #4,512 | |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,700 | 5 | #4,695 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,267 | 8 | #3,431 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,585 | under 5 | |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,653 | under 5 | |
| 1924 | 6 | #5,028 | under 5 | |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,629 | 5 | #4,859 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,642 | 6 | #4,287 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,438 | under 5 | |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,529 | under 5 | |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,272 | under 5 | |
| 1917 | 10 | #3,078 | 6 | #3,950 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,416 | 6 | #3,809 |
| 1914 | 5 | #4,173 | 5 | #3,739 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,451 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Vivan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 821 Americans recorded as Vivan, 45% are girls and 55% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Vivan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vivan, and how old are they?
An estimated 638 Americans named Vivan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (78% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,234 people named Vivan (866 women and girls, 368 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 512 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 12,415 babies since 1880, Vivan is the fourth most given (6.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 529 babies (3.8%), the sixth 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 Vivan
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 Vivan and names like it
- Compare Vivan and VihaanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sVivan peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Vivan since 1910.
- Swedish namesWiktionary’s origin for Vivan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Vivan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Vivan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with VMost given first.