Vienna
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Meaning
city in Austria
The story
Vienna is the capital of Austria worn as a first name, a city of concert halls and coffee houses compressed into three syllables. The American record is longer than you would guess: on the books every decade since the 1890s, single digits and small handfuls for a century, about 300 in the 1990s, about 800 in the 2000s, then the leap, about 2,700 in the 2010s and about 2,800 so far this decade, which has already edged past the 2010s total and past every other completed decade in the record. It rides the place-name wave beside Savannah and Brooklyn, but with a European accent and a waltz in the background. A century of patience, then an overnight success: the most Viennese career arc imaginable.
How popular is Vienna around the world?
In the United States, 2,804 babies were named Vienna between 2020 and 2025. In Canada, 147 girls named Vienna were born in 2024, the 195th most common name among girls that year.
Vienna is on the official records of the United States, Canada, England and Wales, New Zealand, Scotland and South Australia.
United States
1 in 7,800
In the United States, 2,804 babies were named Vienna between 2020 and 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Vienna peaked in the 2020s.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Canada
1 in 2,500
In Canada, 147 girls named Vienna were born in 2024, the 195th most common name among girls that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
First given names from provincial and territorial vital statistics across Canada; any name-sex-year under 5 is excluded at source, and small Quebec counts carry a randomized adjustment made at source. Shares divide by Statistics Canada’s count of live births for the year; the 2024 count is preliminary. Source: Statistics Canada, first names at birth (table 17-10-0147-01)
England and Wales
1 in 2,600
In England and Wales, 229 girls named Vienna were born in 2025, the 207th most common name among girls that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales
New Zealand
1 in 2,600
In New Zealand, 22 girls named Vienna were registered in 2025.
share of that year’s name registrations
First given names from New Zealand birth registrations, grouped by registration year; any name under 10 in a year is excluded at source. Shares divide by Stats NZ’s count of births registered to mothers living in New Zealand, under 1% below the registry’s own count. Source: Department of Internal Affairs (New Zealand), baby name popularity over time
Scotland
1 in 6,500
In Scotland, 7 girls named Vienna were registered in 2024, the 431st most common name among girls that year.
The count never rose above 9 in a year, too few to chart.
Births registered in Scotland; different spellings count separately but accents are merged at source, and any spelling under 3 in total is suppressed. Source: National Records of Scotland, babies' first names
South Australia
1 in 9,2002017
In South Australia, 2 girls were registered as Vienna in 2017.
The count never rose above 4 in a year, too few to chart.
Births registered in South Australia (not all of Australia) by first name and year of registration, 1944–2017, from the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, which publishes every name down to a single birth in capitals; a spelling its export repeats inside a year is counted once, and from 2018 only a top 100 is published, so the series ends at 2017. Source: Consumer and Business Services (South Australia), popular baby names
Austria
last on record 2024
Vienna is not on the 2025 record for Austria, which publishes every first name down to a single birth, so the name was not given there that year.
The count never rose above 2 in a year, too few to chart.
Live births in Austria by year of birth, 1984–2025, from Statistik Austria’s first-name statistics; spellings that differ only by special characters are counted together (umlauts stay apart), every name down to a single birth is published, and the count covers babies with Austrian citizenship only until 2009, every baby from 2010, and from 2015 also births abroad to mothers living in Austria. Shares divide by Statistik Austria’s count of live births from 2010, and before that by the file’s own total for the year. Source: Statistik Austria - data.statistik.gv.at (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1, updated 2026-07-09)
Ireland
last on record 2024
Vienna is not on the 2025 record for Ireland, where names under 3 in a year are withheld at source.
The count never rose above 5 in a year, too few to chart.
Exact registered spellings from Irish vital statistics; any name under 3 in a year is withheld at source, and accented spellings (fadas) are recorded reliably only from 2018. Source: Central Statistics Office (Ireland), Irish babies' names
Poland
last on record 2023
Vienna is not on the 2025 record for Poland, where names given fewer than 2 times in a year are withheld at source.
The count never rose above 2 in a year, too few to chart.
First names given to children born in Poland by year of birth, 2000–2025, from the PESEL population register (Ministry of Digital Affairs); exact spellings count separately (Łukasz and Lukasz are different names), names given fewer than 5 times in a year were left off the list through 2012 and fewer than 2 times from 2013, and the register also counts children born abroad, so its yearly sums run above Poland’s live births. Shares divide by the register’s own published total for the year, never by births. Source: Ministry of Digital Affairs, PESEL register (dane.gov.pl)
Not on the record in Spain, Mexico City, Argentina and Puerto Rico: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
When you meet Vienna
Most people given the name Vienna in the United States are children or teenagers today. The name belongs to this generation.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
The Vienna deep dive
Whether you’re naming a baby or exploring your own name’s history, this is a personal letter, not a list: where Vienna truly comes from, how it traveled, and what a century of records reveals. If you have grown a tree on nametree, it also considers how Vienna fits with your family’s names and surname.
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