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Vivia

#6,816 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Vivia has been given to 583 babies in the U.S. since 1887. In 2025 it ranked #6,816 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Vivia, 2025

1 in 195,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vivia: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Vivia means

Vivia is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Vivia is used in Faroese.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 583 girls were recorded with the name Vivia between 1887 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 33 in 2023; its best national rank was #1,303 in 1887.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,991 in 2020 to #6,816 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,644 in 2015 to #6,816 in 2025.

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 Vivia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 94,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,816
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vivia 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 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vivia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vivias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vivia was born before 2010 — so the typical Vivia is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
28.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
57.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
380
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Choose a decade

2010s — 28.8% of all recorded uses (168).

Is Vivia 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
−672
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,825
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,172
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
51.5%
Peak was 2023 (33)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,303
1887

Spellings of Vivia

Vivia is not the most common spelling — Olivia is, with 47.0% against Vivia's 0.05%.

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 Vivia is used

Across 1910–2025, Vivia was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,485,313 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 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. Vivia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Vivia around the world

Where Vivia 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.

  • Canada
    2018–2022
    #2,896
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1951–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Vivia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,816
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,825
Best rank ever
#1,303
1887
Peak year
2023
33 that year
First recorded
1887
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
583
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Vivia

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

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Sibling names for Vivia

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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