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Vivaan

#1,584 in 2025Boys' name

Plaiting, twisting

Vivaan has been given to 2,759 babies in the U.S. since 2006. In 2025 it ranked #1,584 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 251 recorded.

Babies named Vivaan, 2025

1 in 30,700

Vivaan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vivaan: meaning, origin, and history

Plaiting, twisting

Sanskrit

What Vivaan means

Vivaan means “plaiting, twisting”, associated with vivāna.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Borrowed from Hindi विवान (vivān), from Sanskrit विवान (vivāna, “plaiting, twisting”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Vivaan (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Vivaan is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Vivaan comes through Hindi विवान and Sanskrit विवान.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,759 boys were recorded with the name Vivaan between 2006 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 251 in 2015; its best national rank was #878 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,258 in 2020 to #1,584 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #887 in 2015 to #1,584 in 2025.

How common is Vivaan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 30,700
108 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 15,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,584
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
21,278 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vivaan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 21,278 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vivaan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vivaans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vivaan was born before 2017 — so the typical Vivaan is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
69.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,759
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 69.4% of all recorded uses (1,914).

Is Vivaan rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+269
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−326
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−697
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.43×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
43.0%
Peak was 2015 (251)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#878
2019

Spellings of Vivaan

Vivaan is not the most common spelling — Ivan is, with 86.4% against Vivaan's 1.6%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Vivaan is used

Across 2016–2025, Vivaan was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 2,703 boys, against 1 in 9,051 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 33,333).

337 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 2,703
  2. 2Illinois1 in 5,882
  3. 3Washington1 in 5,882
  4. 4California1 in 7,692
  5. 5Maryland1 in 7,692
  6. 6Virginia1 in 7,692
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in 8,333
  8. 8Texas1 in 8,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Vivaan around the world

Where Vivaan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2007–2025
    #934
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2012–2019
    #609
    in 2019
  • Northern Ireland
    2025–2025
    #395
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2020–2024
    #785
    in 2024
  • France
    2015–2023
    #6,614
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2007–2024
    #622
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2008–2012
    #514
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Vivaan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,584
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 326
Best rank ever
#878
2019
Peak year
2015
251 that year
First recorded
2006
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,759
Count in 2025
108

Names similar to Vivaan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Vivaan

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Vivaan, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

GreysenDeklanEasonBrantleeReyanshRugerKamdynGraysenCristianoBraysonMaxtonCrosby

Sibling names for Vivaan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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