Viveca — girls' name
445 babies named Viveca in U.S. Social Security records since 1948, with the highest year being 1957. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
36% of everyone ever named Viveca was born in this single decade.
27 babies were named Viveca in 1957 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Viveca
The Social Security Administration has registered 445 babies named Viveca between 1948 and 2020, spanning 73 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Viveca currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 1957, when 27 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Viveca performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 162 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Viveca shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 7 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Viveca in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Viveca in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 445 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Viveca at a glance
Last recorded 2020Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Viveca popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2020–1948
- Peak year (1957)
- 27
- Annual births at peak — across 73 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2020.
445 total births across 73 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1957 with 27 births in a single year.
Viveca by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1950s
- 162 births that decade — 36% of Viveca's all-time total
Viveca decade highlights
- Peak decade 162 births
- Runner-up 133 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1950s was Viveca's strongest decade
162 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 36% of all-time use.
Viveca by state
Where Viveca concentrates geographically — total births since 1948
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 7 | 1.6% |
7 of 445 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 1.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 1.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1948–2020 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.