girls:
11 births since 1975
#5705 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.1k births since 1975
#3514 (23rd percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1975
#6643 (14th percentile)
The name Viet is the #6,643 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,096 recorded births since 1975. This represents the 14.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 14.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,514 (23.3% percentile) for all time with 1,085 births since 1975. For girls, it ranks #5,705 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 1975.
Viet first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1975 . Birth data for Viet is available in 45 out of the 49 years between 1975 and 2023 (45 years for boys and 2 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Viet has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Viet reached its peak popularity in 1982, achieving the 8.7% percentile (ranked #631) with 34 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 34 births per million (ranked 8.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2009, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Viet ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 7.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Viet reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #776) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1981, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1981.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Viet".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Viet. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 36.2% confident that Viet is pronounced as VEE-eht, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is veet, at 27.6% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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