girls:
221.7k births since 1880
#180 (97th percentile)
boys:
2.6k births since 1880
#2489 (46th percentile)
overall:
224.3k births since 1880
#356 (95th percentile)
The name Vivian is the #356 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 224,264 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 95.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 95.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #180 (96.9% percentile) for all time with 221,686 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #2,489 (45.7% percentile) for all time with 2,578 births since 1880.
Vivian has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
The name Vivian has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Vivian reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 91.1% percentile (ranked #85) with 1,601 births per million. The name was most common in 1920, with 3,318 births per million (ranked 89.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Vivian ranks #85 for girls (91.1% percentile) with 1,601 births per million, which is 48.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Vivian reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 12.7% percentile (ranked #467) with 72 births per million. The name was most common in 1898, with 151 births per million (ranked 6.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Vivian".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Vivian. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 88.6% confident that Vivian is pronounced as VIH-vee-uhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is VIH-vyuhn, at 11.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like V IH1 V IY0 AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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