Viveka

Girls' name

Form of Vibeke

Viveka has been given to 102 babies in the U.S. since 1988. 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 2006, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Viveka, 2023

1 in 663,000

Viveka over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Viveka: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Vibeke

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Viveka means

Viveka is a form of Vibeke.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Viveka is used in Swedish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Vibeke.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 102 girls were recorded with the name Viveka between 1988 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2006; its best national rank was #10,573 in 2006.

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 Viveka?

Viveka had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023: 1 in 663,000; 5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only: 1 in 321,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 459,528 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Viveka 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Viveka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vivekas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Viveka was born before 2006 — so the typical Viveka is around 19 today.

Median birth year: 2006; About 19 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 55.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 88.2%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 102; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 55.9% of all recorded uses (57).

Is Viveka 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: —; 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 2006 (11)
Years since peak: 19; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 34.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #10,573; 2006

Spellings of Viveka

Viveka is not the most common spelling — Rivka is, with 55.3% against Viveka's 0.56%.

Rivka55.3%10,022
Viva19.9%3,605
Nivea7.3%1,331
Timeka5.5%1,000
Vivica5.3%958
Vivia3.2%583
Vianka2.8%511
Viveka0.56%102

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.

Viveka around the world

Where Viveka 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
1952–1952
#460
in 1952

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

Viveka 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: #10,573; 2006
Peak year: 2006; 11 that year
First recorded: 1988
Last recorded: 2023
All-time count: 102
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Viveka

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

Vivyan Vivika Vivie Aneeka Vivion Vivan Vivica Vivenna Viviene Vivia Jimeka Tereka Maleka Viviann Vivyana Topeka Viveca Sameka Tyneka Roneka Romeka Vivana Tareka Vivienna

Sibling names for Viveka

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

For a sister

Taniya Melia Jazmyne Jayna Nyasia Tayla Lanie Estefany

For a brother

Paulo Yair Lavon Tye Deshaun Oswaldo Nathen Britton

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