Vyvyan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: g Fanciful respelling of the boy’s name ) Vivian
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/vivʲiən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vyvyan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 968as Viviane(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 2.6Kas Vivian
- HUHungary1 in 323as Vivien
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Vyvyan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 221 (measured from records)
- 1 in 323 (inferred from the name graph)
218,643 named Viviane, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Hungary, as Vivien
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Viviane in BR Brazil, US United States, BE Belgium and 1 more, Vivian in FR France and Вивиан in FI Finland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
g Fanciful respelling of the boy’s name ) Vivian.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vyvyan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #178 | 218,643as Viviane | 1 in 968 | 231K | Viviane | 209 |
| US United States | — | 129,224as Vivian | 1 in 2.6K | 128K | Viviane | 221 |
| HU Hungary | — | 30,268as Vivien | 1 in 323 | 30K | — | 1 |
| CM Cameroon | #394 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Viviane | 11 |
| FR France | — | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | 53K | Vivian | 4 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 8 | Viviane | 55 |
| FI Finland | — | 2,805as Vivian | 1 in 2K | 3.1K | Вивиан | 4 |
218,643 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Vyvyan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
English: fanciful respelling of the male name VIVIAN .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Francis Vyvyan Lukeb. 1792GBEnglish cleric
- A. Vyvyan Huntb. 1854NZNew Zealand caricaturist (1854–1929)
- Vyvyan Hollandb. 1886GBBritish author, translator (1886–1967)
- Vyvyan Donnithorneb. 1886GBAnglican missionary (1886-1968)
- Ernest Edgar Vyvyan Collocottb. 1886AUAustralian missionary
- Vyvyan Popeb. 1891GBBritish Army general (1891–1941)
- Vyvyan Lorrayneb. 1939ZASouth African ballet dancer
- Philip Naylor-Leyland, 4th Baronetb. 1953GBnot in their usual nameEnglish aristocrat
- Vyvyan Evansb. 1968GBBritish linguistic and author (born 1968)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 22 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 22 | #116,443 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1921 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1919 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1939 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1925 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1923 | 5 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Vyvyan?
- A machine transcription gives /vivʲiən/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Vyvyan mean, and where does it come from?
- g Fanciful respelling of the boy’s name ) Vivian. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Vyvyan a male or female name?
- Vyvyan 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.
- What are other forms of the name Vyvyan?
- In the etymology graph, Vivian is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Vyvyan?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 218,643 people named Viviane in 2022, about 1 in 968 residents.
- How common is Vyvyan compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Vyvyan is the 178th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Vyvyan have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 219 thousand people named Viviane, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Vyvyan most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Vyvyan itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Hungary's: the national register counts about 1 in 323 people named Vivien.
What do you want to know about Vyvyan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vyvyanThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Vyvyan” — the 178th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.