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Vivek

Boys' name

To sift, discriminate, through विवेक

Vivek has been given to 1,771 babies in the U.S. since 1963. 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 2004, with 75 recorded.

Babies named Vivek, 2024

1 in 418,000

Vivek over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vivek: meaning, origin, and history

To sift, discriminate, through विवेक

Sanskrit

What Vivek means

Vivek belongs to the name family reached through Vivek → विवेक. Its meaning is “to sift, discriminate”.

Origin, language, and formation

Vivek is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Vivek comes through Sanskrit विवेक.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include विवेक.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,771 boys were recorded with the name Vivek between 1963 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 75 in 2004; its best national rank was #1,612 in 1993.

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 Vivek?

Vivek had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 418,000
8 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 215,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
289,633 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vivek 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 2024 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 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vivek. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Viveks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vivek was born before 1998 — so the typical Vivek is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
31.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
45.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,771
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 31.9% of all recorded uses (565).

Is Vivek 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
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2004 (75)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,612
1993

Spellings of Vivek

Vivek is not the most common spelling — River is, with 83.1% against Vivek's 3.7%.

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 Vivek is used

Across 1910–2025, Vivek was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 139,299 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 100,000
  4. 4New York1 in 100,000
  5. 5Maryland1 in —
  6. 6Ohio1 in —
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in —
  8. 8Texas1 in —

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. Vivek has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Vivek around the world

Where Vivek 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
    1996–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    1990–1994
    #3,028
    in 1994
  • Canada
    1991–2011
    #2,664
    in 2011
  • South Australia
    1999–2008
    #726
    in 2008

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

Vivek by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,612
1993
Peak year
2004
75 that year
First recorded
1963
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
1,771
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Vivek

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

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Sibling names for Vivek

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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