Primarily a girl's name · 99% girls
Origin: GreekVivian is a given name, and less often a surname, derived from a Latin name of the Roman Empire period, masculine Vivianus and feminine Viviana, which survived into modern use because it is the name of two early Christian female martyrs as well as of a male saint and bishop.
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Vivian yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Barely moved at all: Vivian is up just 1% across the last ten years, to 3,088 births in 2024. Its real high point came a century earlier — 1920 brought both measures to their peak at once, 4,128 births and #64 nationally.
This name's own total reaches 227,375 births since 1880.
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett's middle name is Vivian; street photographer Vivian Maier, whose work was discovered only after her death, gives the name a very different kind of 20th-century legacy.
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→ See names similar to Vivian · Compare Vivian with another name → · Popular names of the 1920s · Girls names starting with V
Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 22 | #351 |
| 1881 | 24 | #337 |
| 1882 | 27 | #347 |
| 1883 | 33 | #313 |
| 1884 | 33 | #348 |
| 1885 | 51 | #279 |
| 1886 | 49 | #299 |
| 1887 | 66 | #261 |
| 1888 | 77 | #266 |
| 1889 | 83 | #260 |
| 1890 | 103 | #241 |
| 1891 | 108 | #234 |
| 1892 | 152 | #205 |
| 1893 | 185 | #191 |
| 1894 | 212 | #184 |
| 1895 | 216 | #183 |
| 1896 | 224 | #183 |
| 1897 | 241 | #177 |
| 1898 | 308 | #162 |
| 1899 | 250 | #172 |
| 1900 | 383 | #152 |
| 1901 | 342 | #146 |
| 1902 | 425 | #132 |
| 1903 | 432 | #128 |
| 1904 | 470 | #126 |
| 1905 | 492 | #128 |
| 1906 | 489 | #129 |
| 1907 | 572 | #116 |
| 1908 | 561 | #121 |
| 1909 | 652 | #111 |
| 1910 | 801 | #107 |
| 1911 | 1,211 | #80 |
| 1912 | 1,487 | #84 |
| 1913 | 1,727 | #83 |
| 1914 | 2,080 | #81 |
| 1915 | 2,857 | #78 |
| 1916 | 3,049 | #77 |
| 1917 | 3,119 | #79 |
| 1918 | 3,663 | #72 |
| 1919 | 3,640 | #72 |
| 1920 | 4,128 | #64 |
| 1921 | 4,103 | #68 |
| 1922 | 3,733 | #74 |
| 1923 | 3,831 | #69 |
| 1924 | 3,850 | #71 |
| 1925 | 3,576 | #76 |
| 1926 | 3,430 | #80 |
| 1927 | 3,510 | #77 |
| 1928 | 3,310 | #78 |
| 1929 | 3,101 | #81 |
| 1930 | 2,872 | #91 |
| 1931 | 2,893 | #82 |
| 1932 | 2,662 | #90 |
| 1933 | 2,378 | #98 |
| 1934 | 2,413 | #98 |
| 1935 | 2,124 | #112 |
| 1936 | 2,015 | #115 |
| 1937 | 1,910 | #127 |
| 1938 | 1,797 | #135 |
| 1939 | 1,868 | #128 |
| 1940 | 2,261 | #115 |
| 1941 | 2,280 | #113 |
| 1942 | 2,203 | #125 |
| 1943 | 2,321 | #122 |
| 1944 | 2,022 | #129 |
| 1945 | 2,168 | #118 |
| 1946 | 2,424 | #120 |
| 1947 | 2,483 | #128 |
| 1948 | 2,424 | #126 |
| 1949 | 2,327 | #136 |
| 1950 | 2,269 | #138 |
| 1951 | 2,405 | #138 |
| 1952 | 2,508 | #142 |
| 1953 | 2,358 | #149 |
| 1954 | 2,275 | #156 |
| 1955 | 2,357 | #154 |
| 1956 | 2,560 | #148 |
| 1957 | 2,433 | #153 |
| 1958 | 2,206 | #172 |
| 1959 | 2,183 | #177 |
| 1960 | 2,023 | #188 |
| 1961 | 1,892 | #194 |
| 1962 | 1,747 | #206 |
| 1963 | 1,746 | #204 |
| 1964 | 1,511 | #224 |
| 1965 | 1,253 | #245 |
| 1966 | 1,059 | #260 |
| 1967 | 1,056 | #259 |
| 1968 | 914 | #288 |
| 1969 | 810 | #319 |
| 1970 | 777 | #339 |
| 1971 | 660 | #362 |
| 1972 | 569 | #378 |
| 1973 | 526 | #388 |
| 1974 | 505 | #401 |
| 1975 | 423 | #453 |
| 1976 | 377 | #486 |
| 1977 | 361 | #518 |
| 1978 | 348 | #529 |
| 1979 | 457 | #449 |
| 1980 | 409 | #498 |
| 1981 | 351 | #536 |
| 1982 | 393 | #512 |
| 1983 | 411 | #481 |
| 1984 | 412 | #489 |
| 1985 | 408 | #498 |
| 1986 | 443 | #485 |
| 1987 | 429 | #500 |
| 1988 | 429 | #515 |
| 1989 | 465 | #507 |
| 1990 | 553 | #447 |
| 1991 | 852 | #316 |
| 1992 | 909 | #307 |
| 1993 | 931 | #295 |
| 1994 | 921 | #299 |
| 1995 | 867 | #317 |
| 1996 | 897 | #314 |
| 1997 | 908 | #320 |
| 1998 | 912 | #325 |
| 1999 | 1,114 | #281 |
| 2000 | 1,177 | #272 |
| 2001 | 1,020 | #312 |
| 2002 | 1,275 | #249 |
| 2003 | 1,453 | #224 |
| 2004 | 1,424 | #231 |
| 2005 | 1,560 | #223 |
| 2006 | 1,536 | #224 |
| 2007 | 1,639 | #210 |
| 2008 | 1,639 | #206 |
| 2009 | 1,964 | #164 |
| 2010 | 1,943 | #158 |
| 2011 | 2,022 | #153 |
| 2012 | 2,264 | #140 |
| 2013 | 2,651 | #120 |
| 2014 | 3,063 | #97 |
| 2015 | 3,204 | #95 |
| 2016 | 3,141 | #95 |
| 2017 | 3,032 | #97 |
| 2018 | 2,976 | #96 |
| 2019 | 2,933 | #96 |
| 2020 | 2,705 | #101 |
| 2021 | 2,693 | #102 |
| 2022 | 2,674 | #104 |
| 2023 | 2,806 | #87 |
| 2024 | 3,088 | #77 |
