Vivi

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Vivi: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Vivi: Recorded since 1945, it reached #127 in 1960, and it stood at #4,056 in 2023.

2registrars recorded it
57times a registrar ranked it
79years from first to last
#127highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2007–2023

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2007	#5201
2008	#4524
2011	#4764
2016	#4763
2019	#4686
2021	#5581
2022	#3533
2023	#4056

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 49 of the 66 years from 1945 to 2010.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1945–2023 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #169 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–2010
Highest recorded position: #127 among girls in Norway, in 1960 (recorded 1945–2010).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2023
Most recently recorded at #4056 among girls in England and Wales, in 2023.
England and Wales · Girls

Vivi appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 49 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 905 births with the name.

Vivi across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Vivi's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#169 (1945)	#127 (1960)	#614 (2010)	49 of 66	905 (1945–2010)	38 (1946)
England and Wales · Girls	#5201 (2007)	#3533 (2022)	#4056 (2023)	8 of 17	33 (2007–2023)	6 (2022)

Vivi by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Vivi in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940sbusiest	147	5 of 10	29
1950s	248	10 of 10	25
1960s	277	10 of 10	28
1970s	148	10 of 10	15
1980s	49	7 of 10	7
1990s	28	5 of 10	6
2000s	4	1 of 10	4
2010s	4	1 of 10	4

Across Norway · Girls, the 1940s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 29 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Vivi appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1945 to 2023. Highest recorded position: #127 in Norway in 1960.

Vivi's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2023	England and Wales	female	#4056	5	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#3533	6	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4686	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4764	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#4524	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#5201	3	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#614	4	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#641	4	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#483	7	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#485	7	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#661	4	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#554	6	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#692	4	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#596	6	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#507	8	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#686	4	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#502	8	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#486	8	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#511	7	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#470	8	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#461	8	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#451	8	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#314	14	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#365	11	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#299	14	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#299	15	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#275	16	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#255	18	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#248	19	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#193	25	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#170	28	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#173	28	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#147	34	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#194	22	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#164	27	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#164	27	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#159	28	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#161	26	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#201	21	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#127	36	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#171	23	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#165	26	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#154	28	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#178	23	High	Verified
1955	Norway	female	#163	27	High	Verified
1954	Norway	female	#172	24	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#162	28	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#175	25	High	Verified
1951	Norway	female	#154	28	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#222	16	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#149	31	High	Verified
1948	Norway	female	#185	22	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#167	29	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#140	38	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#169	27	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1945 and 2023, ranked in 57 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #127, first reached in 1960.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 38 births, registered in Norway in 1946.

Its record falls into 12 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 6 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2007, and 62 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Vivaan · #574, 18y
Vivan · #1781, 14y
Vivian · #110, 81y
Viviana · #790, 23y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Augustine · #124, 53y
Brid · #131, 54y
Emine · #132, 55y
Pauric · #132, 55y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Aslak · #127, 81y
Ådne · #128, 67y
Jorid · #126, 49y
Kolbjørn · #128, 49y

Vivi was ranked #127 in Norway · Girls in 1960. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Vivi and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Vivi without appearing here.

Vivi moved ahead of

Cheryl Compare
In 2021 they stood at #4686 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #3533 and #5669.
Donna Compare
In 2021 they stood at #5581 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #3533 and #5669.
Kari Compare
In 2021 they stood at #4686 and #4686 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2022 that had become #3533 and #5669.
Belinda Compare
In 2022 they stood at #5581 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #4056 and #5687.

Moved ahead of Vivi

Isabelle Compare
In 1986 they stood at #502 and #519 in Norway · Girls; by 1987 that had become #686 and #270.
Paula Compare
In 1986 they stood at #486 and #619 in Norway · Girls; by 1987 that had become #686 and #289.
Aurora Compare
In 1986 they stood at #502 and #508 in Norway · Girls; by 1987 that had become #686 and #346.
Tara Compare
In 1989 they stood at #596 and #643 in Norway · Girls; by 1990 that had become #692 and #355.

Moved the opposite way to Vivi

Ada Compare
Between 1945 and 2010 in Norway · Girls, Vivi went from #169 to #614 while Ada went from #229 to #71.
Alma Compare
Between 1945 and 2010 in Norway · Girls, Vivi went from #169 to #614 while Alma went from #293 to #46.
Anna Compare
Between 1945 and 2010 in Norway · Girls, Vivi went from #169 to #614 while Anna went from #38 to #9.
Cecilie Compare
Between 1945 and 2010 in Norway · Girls, Vivi went from #169 to #614 while Cecilie went from #359 to #207.

Moved the same way as Vivi

Anita Compare
Between 1945 and 2010 in Norway · Girls, Vivi went from #169 to #614 and Anita from #162 to #332.
Ann Compare
Between 1945 and 2010 in Norway · Girls, Vivi went from #169 to #614 and Ann from #82 to #420.
Anne Compare
Between 1945 and 2010 in Norway · Girls, Vivi went from #169 to #614 and Anne from #1 to #104.
Annie Compare
Between 1945 and 2010 in Norway · Girls, Vivi went from #169 to #614 and Annie from #180 to #333.

What's not yet available

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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1945 to 2023. Highest recorded position: #127 in Norway in 1960. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Vivi

Vivi at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Vivi across 2 official records

Vivi by decade in Norway · Girls

Vivi appears in

Popularity data

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Vivi at a glance

Vivi across 2 official records

Vivi by decade in Norway · Girls

Vivi appears in

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Vivi

Vivi and the names beside it

Vivi moved ahead of

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