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Viveca

Girls' name

Form of Vibeke

Viveca has been given to 445 babies in the U.S. since 1948. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1957, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Viveca, 2020

1 in 477,000

Viveca over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Viveca: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Vibeke

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Viveca means

Viveca is a form of Vibeke.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Viveca is used in Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Vibeke.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 445 girls were recorded with the name Viveca between 1948 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 27 in 1957; its best national rank was #2,163 in 1957.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Viveca?

Viveca had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 477,000
7 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only
1 in 231,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
330,960 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Viveca sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 330,960 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Viveca. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vivecas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Viveca was born before 1962 — so the typical Viveca is around 63 today.

Median birth year
1962
About 63 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
36.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
425
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1950s — 36.4% of all recorded uses (162).

Is Viveca 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1957 (27)
Years since peak
68
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,163
1957

Spellings of Viveca

Viveca is not the most common spelling — Viva is, with 40.9% against Viveca's 5.0%.

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 Viveca is used

Across 1910–2025, Viveca was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,287,539 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Viveca has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Viveca around the world

Where Viveca 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.

  • South Australia
    1972–1972
    #722
    in 1972

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Viveca by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,163
1957
Peak year
1957
27 that year
First recorded
1948
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
445
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Viveca

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

VivikaVivicaVivanViviaViviannVivyanVivianeViviVivieSenecaVivekaVivienVivionTamecaJamecaVivianneTomecaVivaShamecaVivennaViviannaVivieneRevecaRebbeca

Sibling names for Viveca

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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