Vishnu

#5,399 for boys in 2025, 17 births

Peak · boys
2007 · 65 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,130
since 1977

Vishnu over time

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Rank among boys' names. Vishnu has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202006peak #2,094, 2007boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
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rankbirths
2025#5,39917
2024#4,89020
2023#5,66616
2022#3,77429
2021#5,33817
2020#4,69820
2019#4,48022
2018#3,30134
2017#3,24935
2016#3,68129
2015#4,08025
2014#3,15435
2013#2,71543
2012#3,45031
2011#2,95039
2010#3,30833
2009#2,45152
2008#2,68446
2007#2,09465
2006#2,47749
2005#2,70140
2004#2,34448
2003#2,34945
2002#2,29545
2001#2,74234
2000#2,29842
1999#2,72231
1998#2,65131
1997#3,73818
1996#3,29321
1995#3,30320
1994#4,53713
1993#5,36010
1992#6,1288
1991#5,9428
1990#4,67311
1989#7,9055
1988#6,4266
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1984#6,3155
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First appearance
1977

The first year at least five boys were named Vishnu! It came in at #5,123, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1978–1980, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

See more about Vishnu
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 509 spots since 2024 (#4,890#5,399)
  • 701 spots since 2020 (#4,698#5,399)
  • 1,319 spots since 2015 (#4,080#5,399)
Rise & fade · boys
30 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1977
  • Peaked 2007 at #2,094 (65 births)
  • Births halved by 2012, 5 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 31,929
  • Highest: 1 in 31,929 boys born in 2007 were named Vishnu (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 100,475 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 41.2% of all boys named Vishnu (466) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s6#5,123 (1977)#5,123
1980s42#4,961 (1981)#6,046
1990s171#2,651 (1998)#4,235
2000s466#2,094 (2007)#2,444
2010s326#2,715 (2013)#3,437
2020s119#3,774 (2022)#4,961

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Vishnu in 2006

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#2,477
49 births · 1 in 41,944 boys

Top boys' names in 2006

  1. #1Jacob24,871
  2. #2Michael22,653
  3. #3Joshua22,336
  4. #4Ethan20,522
  5. #5Matthew20,339
  6. #6Daniel20,082
  7. #7Andrew19,733
  8. #8Christopher19,688
  9. #9Anthony19,413
  10. #10William18,965
  11. #2,477Vishnu49
More about 2006

boys

2,055,273 boys got a published name in 2006; 1 in 41,944 of them was named Vishnu, which outranked 82.4% of the 14,047 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Vishnu
  1. #2,449Yechiel50
  2. #2,449Zacary50
  3. #2,449Zyler50
  4. #2,477Vishnu49
  5. #2,477Abimael49
  6. #2,477Aidin49
  7. #2,477Ansel49
  8. #2,513Adarius48
  9. #2,513Andi48
  10. #2,513Arin48

Tied with 35 names at #2,477; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2005
Risers
  1. 792Bode#1,648#856
  2. 790Talen#1,691#901
  3. 677Kingston#1,603#926
  4. 634Imanol#1,619#985
  5. 590Yandel#1,266#676
Fallers
  1. 2,208Baby#945#3,153
  2. 609Kanye#892#1,501
  3. 442Amarion#628#1,070
  4. 308Omarion#420#728
  5. 224Johnpaul#739#963

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2006