Viva

Where Viva comes from

Viva hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #679 among girls — 7 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1894
    Peak, #442
    40 babies named Viva — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1944
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,096.
  4. 1972
    Viva Seifert born
    British gymnast
  5. 1983
    Viva Bianca born
    Australian actress
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Viva Bianca · Australian actress, born 1983
  • Viva Seifert · British gymnast, born 1972

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.