Vivek is a male first name.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Vivek in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Vivek in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Vivek by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Vivek ranks at #5,175. That means there are 5,174 more common boys 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 Vivek.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Vivek. Boys named Vivek have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 1,471 Vivek ranked higher than ever before in 1993. By comparison, there have been 87 years in which the first name Vivek has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2020. In general, parents name their sons Vivek only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Vivek was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Vivek continues to be a precious jewel: 7 newborns were named Vivek that year, ranking #8,311 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Vivek, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Vivek. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 554 Americans who bear this name. And these 554 men and boys named Vivek live in no more than 8 different states, including for example California, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey and New York. In the other 41 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Vivek lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Vivek and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Vivek relative to its male population is New Jersey. And even there, only one male in 42,635 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Vivek.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The V is really rare as a first letter for boys' names: only 1.3% of all common boys' names in the US begin with a V. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With five letters, the name Vivek is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five 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.
That means that if 1.3% of all boys' names start with a V, all other letters occur on average three times as often as the V. Nevertheless, individual boys' names with V are quite popular, the most common currently being Vincent.
If your name is Vivek 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 Vivek, you can simply say:
Violin
Igloo
Violin
Elephant
Koala
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Vivek
Vivek
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
V
I
V
E
K
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
E
K
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. Vivek sounds like this:
