Vivek
Vivek was last recorded in 2024, when 8 babies were given it; 1,771 Americans have been recorded with it between 1963 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,700 Americans named Vivek and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 21 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vivek by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Vivek mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Vivek is “a male given name from the South Asian languages [in turn from Sanskrit].”
From Sanskrit विवेक (viveka).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Vivek?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,811, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
75 babies in 2004, the peak
Vivek peaked in 2004, when 75 boys were given it, #1,712 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8 | #9,811 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 16 | #5,893 | 9.4 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,765 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,544 | 6.3 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,835 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,677 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 16 | #5,763 | 8.6 |
| 2016 | 12 | #7,117 | 6.3 |
| 2015 | 18 | #5,275 | 9.4 |
| 2014 | 26 | #4,001 | 13.5 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 22 | #4,451 | 11.6 |
| 2012 | 24 | #4,235 | 12.7 |
| 2011 | 34 | #3,302 | 17.9 |
| 2010 | 24 | #4,228 | 12.5 |
| 2009 | 33 | #3,394 | 16.6 |
| 2008 | 44 | #2,785 | 21.6 |
| 2007 | 53 | #2,439 | 25.5 |
| 2006 | 45 | #2,657 | 21.9 |
| 2005 | 61 | #2,055 | 30.5 |
| 2004 | 75 | #1,712 | 37.8 |
| 2003 | 69 | #1,759 | 34.9 |
| 2002 | 54 | #2,039 | 27.8 |
| 2001 | 61 | #1,834 | 31.4 |
| 2000 | 70 | #1,660 | 35.6 |
| 1999 | 57 | #1,772 | 29.7 |
| 1998 | 47 | #2,036 | 24.6 |
| 1997 | 37 | #2,304 | 19.6 |
| 1996 | 45 | #1,980 | 23.8 |
| 1995 | 50 | #1,773 | 26.3 |
| 1994 | 43 | #1,968 | 22.3 |
| 1993 | 56 | #1,612 | 28.6 |
| 1992 | 46 | #1,814 | 23.0 |
| 1991 | 35 | #2,134 | 17.3 |
| 1990 | 33 | #2,207 | 16.1 |
| 1989 | 32 | #2,198 | 16.0 |
| 1988 | 32 | #2,028 | 16.7 |
| 1987 | 41 | #1,677 | 22.0 |
| 1986 | 36 | #1,754 | 19.5 |
| 1985 | 30 | #1,969 | 16.2 |
| 1984 | 34 | #1,719 | 18.8 |
| 1983 | 33 | #1,744 | 18.4 |
| 1982 | 27 | #2,056 | 14.9 |
| 1981 | 34 | #1,724 | 19.0 |
| 1980 | 20 | #2,534 | 11.2 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,557 | 7.0 |
| 1978 | 23 | #2,131 | 14.0 |
| 1977 | 17 | #2,659 | 10.3 |
| 1976 | 20 | #2,324 | 12.7 |
| 1975 | 21 | #2,203 | 13.4 |
| 1974 | 22 | #2,048 | 14.0 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,438 | 6.4 |
| 1972 | 20 | #2,074 | 12.3 |
| 1971 | 14 | #2,679 | 7.9 |
| 1970 | 11 | #3,063 | 5.9 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,302 | 5.0 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,355 | 4.6 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,913 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,596 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Vivek a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Vivek has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Vivek: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vivek, and how old are they?
1,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,771 Americans ever recorded as Vivek. The median Vivek alive today is 28 years old; half are between 21 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 5,917 people named Vivek (20 women and girls, 5,897 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,681 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.5 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 191 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 578 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 774 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 157 |
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 Vivek born?
The states with the most babies named Vivek are California, New York and New Jersey, with 78% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 201 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 124 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 108 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Texas | 54 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 45 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Maryland | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Vivek is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Vivek is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1963 it was given 2.1 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 Vivek 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,382 babies since 1880, Vivek is the most given (74% of them).
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 Vivek
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 Vivek and names like it
- Compare Vivek and VickBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sVivek peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Vivek since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Vivek: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Vivek.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Vivek alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with VMost given first.