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Vyvyan

Girls' name

Possibly alive, through Vivian

Vyvyan has been given to 37 babies in the U.S. since 1919. 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 1919, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Vyvyan, 2009

1 in 764,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vyvyan: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly alive, through Vivian

Latin

What Vyvyan means

Vyvyan belongs to the name family reached through Vyvyan → Vivian. Its meaning is “alive”.

Origin, language, and formation

Vyvyan is used in English. Its origins include Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Vivian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 37 girls were recorded with the name Vyvyan between 1919 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1919; its best national rank was #3,798 in 1919.

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 Vyvyan?

Vyvyan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2009
1 in 764,000
5 of 3,820,315 births
Among girls only
1 in 367,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2009
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
529,609 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vyvyan 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 2009 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 529,609 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vyvyan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vyvyans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Vyvyan was born before 1923 — so the typical Vyvyan is around 102 today.

Median birth year
1923
About 102 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
48.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5
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1920s — 48.6% of all recorded uses (18).

Is Vyvyan 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1919 (8)
Years since peak
106
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#3,798
1919

Spellings of Vyvyan

Vyvyan is not the most common spelling — Vivian is, with 100.0% against Vyvyan's 0.02%.

  • Vivian100.0%228,172
  • Vyvyan0.02%37

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.

Vyvyan around the world

Where Vyvyan 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
    1948–1948
    #369
    in 1948

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

Vyvyan 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
#3,798
1919
Peak year
1919
8 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
37
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Vyvyan

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

VyvianXinyanReyyanVivyanEriyanShiyanLiyanVyvyShayanRhiyanRayyanBrayanShuyanMiryanAniyanEbyanLeyanAbyanKiyanZiyanAriyanDayanAliyanDariyan

Sibling names for Vyvyan

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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