Viviân
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Viviân is a female given name written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Early saints' name from Latin Vīviānus, and of its feminine form Vīviāna, probably from vīvus (“alive”).
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- LatinVīviānus(measured from records)
- Latin rootvīvus“alive”(measured from records)
Early saints' name from Latin Vīviānus, and of its feminine form Vīviāna, probably from vīvus (“alive”).
Cited for this meaning 7
- A concise dictionary of first names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Wiktionary
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Viviân mean, and where does it come from?
- Early saints' name from Latin Vīviānus, and of its feminine form Vīviāna, probably from vīvus (“alive”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 5 other sources.
- Is Viviân a male or female name?
- Viviân is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data
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Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Viviân”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.