How Many People Are Named Vivek?
people named Vivek are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 200,225 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,771 babies named Vivek in Social Security records from 1963 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
75 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Means "wisdom, distinction, discrimination" in Sanskrit.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Related & Similar Names
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Vivek in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Vivek alive today is about 28 years old, and 57% are under 30. Half of them were between 20 and 37 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Vivek first appears in the records in 1963 and was given most often in 2004, to 75 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.
Babies given the name each year, 1963 to 2024
🏆 Rank History
Vivek has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,612, in 1993.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #1,612 (1993) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #2,171 in the 2000s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Vivek alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Vivek were born in California than in any other state: about 196 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Vivek was given 7.2 times as often in New Jersey, 3.4 times in New York and 2.6 times in California.
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