Vivyan
Vivyan was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,820 among girls’ names; 122 Americans have been recorded with it since 1924 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vivyan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Vivyan?
#14,820 among girls’ names, 2025
Vivyan fell from #10,819 in 2015 to #14,820 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 5.6 to 3.7 per million.
10 babies in 2015, the peak
Vivyan peaked in 2015, when 10 girls were given it, #10,819 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 60% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,820 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,598 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,379 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,431 | 3.6 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,563 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 7 | #14,238 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,819 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,876 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 8 | #13,077 | 4.6 |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,432 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 8 | #13,629 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 5 | #20,412 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,544 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,356 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 6 | #16,009 | 3.3 |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,327 | 3.3 |
| 1998 | 6 | #14,039 | 3.4 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,865 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Vivyan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Vivyan has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 18 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Vivyan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vivyan, and how old are they?
An estimated 116 Americans named Vivyan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 9 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 166 people named Vivyan (165 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 99 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 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).
How common is the spelling Vivyan?
Vivyan is a less common spelling of Vivian: SSA has recorded 122 Vivyan and 230,755 Vivian since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 239,066 babies since 1880, Vivyan is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 3,516 babies (<1%), again the fourth 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 Vivyan
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 Vivyan and names like it
- Compare Vivyan and VivianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sVivyan peaked in 2015.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Vivyan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Vivyan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with VMost given first.