Vihan
Vihan was the 5589th most popular name for boys in 2025, given to 17 babies. Its best year was 2013, when it ranked 2458th with 51 babies. Over the last ten years it has moved down 2,166 places. More babies were named Vihan in the 2010s than in any other decade.
Meaning (as Vihaan) dawn, morning · Sanskrit, Hindi
- Rank in 2025
- #5,589 boys, down 1,784 places since 2020
- Babies in 2025
- 17boys
- Girls and boys
- Almost always a boy’s name2021–2025
- Peak year
- 201351 babies
- Total since 1880
- 550babies recorded
What does the name Vihan mean?
Vihan is a spelling of Vihaan, pronounced the same way, so it shares Vihaan's meaning and origin.
Vihaan comes from Sanskrit vihāna, which the Monier-Williams Sanskrit dictionary glosses 'morning, dawn', while marking the word as known only from Sanskrit lexicons. Hindi borrowed it as vihān, 'dawn, daybreak, morning', and Wiktionary records Vihaan and Vihan as a boys' name from that word. It came into use in US birth records in the 2000s.
विहान (Sanskrit / Hindi, “dawn, morning”)
How sure is this? Probable. Monier-Williams marks vihāna as attested only by lexicographers.
Related names: Vihan.
See also: Sanskrit and Indian names, names that mean sky, star, moon or sun.
Sources for this meaning
- Wiktionary, entry 'विहान' (Hindi section), Wiktionary (Wikimedia Foundation)
- Monier Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), s.v. 'vihāna' (Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries), Oxford, Clarendon Press (public domain); digitized by University of Cologne
- US Social Security Administration, national baby-name data 1880-2025 (usage history only), US Social Security Administration
Vihan popularity since 1880
| Year | Rank (boys) | Babies (boys) |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #5,589 | 17 |
| 2020 | #3,805 | 28 |
| 2010 | #3,890 | 27 |
| 2000 | — | — |
| 1990 | — | — |
| 1980 | — | — |
| 1970 | — | — |
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| 1950 | — | — |
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| 1890 | — | — |
| 1880 | — | — |
How popular is Vihan, counting every spelling?
Vihan is a spelling of Vihaan, a name family that ranked #835 for boys in 2025 once every spelling is counted together, compared with #5,589 for Vihan on its own. Together these spellings went to 278 boys in 2025.
| Spelling | Babies 2025 | Official rank | Babies 2021–2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vihaan | 261 | #910 | 1,340 |
| Vihan | 17 | #5,589 | 149 |
Spellings count together when they sound the same in American English and are used for the same sex; nicknames and forms that sound different (such as Theo and Theodore) are kept apart. How we group spellings.
How many kids will share the name Vihan?
17 of the 3,606,400 babies born in the US in 2025 were named Vihan (0.00 per 1,000 births). For a boy named Vihan born in 2025, the chance that another child with the same name is in a class of 20 children the same age is under 1 in 50. If every grade liked the name as much as the 2025 babies do, only about one elementary school in 495 (of 430 pupils) would have a child named Vihan.
Shares of all registered births (NCHS); classes assumed to be children born the same year. How we estimate this.
How old are people named Vihan?
About 500 people born in the US named Vihan are alive today, with a median age of 10; half are between 5 and 13. That makes Vihan a young name: most people with it are children.
Babies given the name each year (SSA) times the share of that birth year still alive (SSA life tables). Counts people born in the US only. Method.
Vihan by state
How common Vihan was among boys born in each state in 2021–2025. In 48 states fewer than five boys a year got the name, too few for SSA to publish, so those states show as zero.
Names with a similar history
These names rose and fell in step with Vihan: their share of US boys followed the most similar curve since 1880. If you like Vihan, they share its era and feel.
Questions about the name Vihan
What does Vihan mean?
Vihan is a spelling of Vihaan, which means “dawn, morning” (Sanskrit, Hindi origin). Certainty: probable.
How popular is the name Vihan?
Vihan was the 5589th most popular name for boys in 2025, given to 17 babies. Its best year was 2013, when it ranked 2458th with 51 babies. Over the last ten years it has moved down 2,166 places. More babies were named Vihan in the 2010s than in any other decade.
Is Vihan a boy or girl name?
In 2021–2025, almost always a boy’s name given the name Vihan in the US.
Where is Vihan most popular?
In 2021–2025, Vihan was most common in Washington (0.03 per 1,000 boys), followed by California and Texas.