Viva is a first name for girls.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Viva in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Viva in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Viva by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Viva ranks at #7,520. That means there are 7,519 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Viva.
Viva is not an overly common name, in fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 2006, where the name Viva was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Viva and were born in the USA in 2006, please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the 19th century, Viva even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular girls' names: In 1894, it ranked on position 425 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Viva was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Although the name Viva has a changeful history, it has clearly arrived in the present. In 2022, the name was given by young parents to their newborn children a remarkable 11 times and thus landed on position 7,858 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular female first names. However, the name is still so rare that the 11 girls with the name Viva, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is highly likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children with this name.
The odds of living in the same state as someone with the first name Viva are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This girl’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet girls and women with the name Viva in 21 states – that is about every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Illinois or Indiana. In relation to the number of residents, the most women and girls with the first name Viva live in Arkansas – here, one in 13,622 bears this beautiful name. In comparison, if we look at all living women and girls in the whole country, only one in 234,304 will turn around if you call her first name Viva.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter V is quite rare as an initial letter for girls' names: only 1.6% of all common girls' names in the US begin with V, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. But V is by no means the rarest initial. While Q, X and U are the least common initials of girls' names, the most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M.
With four letters, the name Viva is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
From this follows that if 1.6% of all girls' names begin with a V, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Incidentally, of the comparatively few girls' names that begin with a V, Virginia is currently the most common.
If your name is Viva and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Viva, you can simply say:
Violin
Igloo
Violin
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Viva
Viva
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
V
I
V
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
V
I
V
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Viva sounds like this:
