Vishnu
#5,399 for boys in 2025, 17 births
- Peak · boys
- 2007 · 65 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,130since 1977
Vishnu over time
Rank among boys' names. Vishnu has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,399 | 17 |
| 2024 | #4,890 | 20 |
| 2023 | #5,666 | 16 |
| 2022 | #3,774 | 29 |
| 2021 | #5,338 | 17 |
| 2020 | #4,698 | 20 |
| 2019 | #4,480 | 22 |
| 2018 | #3,301 | 34 |
| 2017 | #3,249 | 35 |
| 2016 | #3,681 | 29 |
| 2015 | #4,080 | 25 |
| 2014 | #3,154 | 35 |
| 2013 | #2,715 | 43 |
| 2012 | #3,450 | 31 |
| 2011 | #2,950 | 39 |
| 2010 | #3,308 | 33 |
| 2009 | #2,451 | 52 |
| 2008 | #2,684 | 46 |
| 2007 | #2,094 | 65 |
| 2006 | #2,477 | 49 |
| 2005 | #2,701 | 40 |
| 2004 | #2,344 | 48 |
| 2003 | #2,349 | 45 |
| 2002 | #2,295 | 45 |
| 2001 | #2,742 | 34 |
| 2000 | #2,298 | 42 |
| 1999 | #2,722 | 31 |
| 1998 | #2,651 | 31 |
| 1997 | #3,738 | 18 |
| 1996 | #3,293 | 21 |
| 1995 | #3,303 | 20 |
| 1994 | #4,537 | 13 |
| 1993 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1992 | #6,128 | 8 |
| 1991 | #5,942 | 8 |
| 1990 | #4,673 | 11 |
| 1989 | #7,905 | 5 |
| 1988 | #6,426 | 6 |
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| 1986 | #5,926 | 6 |
| 1985 | #5,785 | 6 |
| 1984 | #6,315 | 5 |
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| 1982 | #5,003 | 7 |
| 1981 | #4,961 | 7 |
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| 1977 | #5,123 | 6 |
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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.
Where Vishnu is popular in 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#777 · 1 in 6,373
- California#1,350 · 1 in 18,626
Best ever in a state: #646 in New Jersey, 2003.
Show every state
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| New Jersey | #777 | 7 | 1 in 6,373 |
| California | #1,350 | 13 | 1 in 18,626 |
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See more about Vishnu
- 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)
- Debuted 1977
- Peaked 2007 at #2,094 (65 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 41.2% of all boys named Vishnu (466) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 6 | #5,123 (1977) | #5,123 |
| 1980s | 42 | #4,961 (1981) | #6,046 |
| 1990s | 171 | #2,651 (1998) | #4,235 |
| 2000s | 466 | #2,094 (2007) | #2,444 |
| 2010s | 326 | #2,715 (2013) | #3,437 |
| 2020s | 119 | #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 2009
Top boys' names in 2009
More about 2009
boys
1,983,573 boys got a published name in 2009; 1 in 38,146 of them was named Vishnu, which outranked 83.1% of the 14,540 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,401Westen53
- #2,401Zamari53
- #2,401Zeus53
- #2,451Vishnu52
- #2,451Abbas52
- #2,451Aleczander52
- #2,451Anwar52
- #2,486Andrez51
- #2,486Ansel51
- #2,486Brylan51
Tied with 34 names at #2,451; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.