girls:
357 births since 1911
#5359 (6th percentile)
boys:
414 births since 1914
#4172 (9th percentile)
overall:
771 births since 1911
#6968 (10th percentile)
The name Vivan is the #6,968 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 771 recorded births since 1911. This represents the 9.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,172 (9.0% percentile) for all time with 414 births since 1914. For girls, it ranks #5,359 (6.2% percentile) for all time with 357 births since 1911.
Vivan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1911 (1911 for girls and 1914 for boys). Birth data for Vivan is available in 68 out of the 113 years between 1911 and 2023 (55 years for girls and 27 years for boys). 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 Vivan is truly gender-neutral, with nearly equal distribution between boys and girls. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Vivan were boys. Interestingly, until around 1930, the name was more popular for girls (68.3% girls from 1911 to 1929), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (58.8% boys from 1930 to 2023).
For boys, Vivan reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 4.2% percentile (ranked #882) with 22 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 22 births per million (ranked 4.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Vivan ranks #890 for boys (2.3% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 65.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Vivan reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #572) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1911, with 14 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Vivan".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Vivan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 50.0% confident that Vivan is pronounced as VIH-vuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is VEE-vuhn, at 44.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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