Vivienne

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Latin ‘living’; a French form, perhaps influenced by Celtic Ninian

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Vivienne is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 23K(measured from records)
  • HUHungary1 in 323as Vivien
  • HKHong Kong≈1 in 872as Vivian

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 Vivienne 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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈830,000 named Vivian, est.

#926 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

6 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
528 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

VivianLatin(measured from records)
ויויאןHebrew(measured from records)
วิเวียนThai(measured from records)
비비안Hangul(measured from records)
ვივიანGeorgian(measured from records)
ΒίβιενGreek(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Vivian in US United States, PH Philippines, NG Nigeria and 3 more and Vivien in HU Hungary.

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)

Latin ‘living’; a French form, perhaps influenced by Celtic Ninian.

Sources 1

  • Irish first names

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Vivienne 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.

Where Vivienne is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈830,000 est.≈1 in 1.7K—Vivian74
NG Nigeria#312≈180,000 est.≈1 in 1.2K—Vivian114
US United States#395129,224as Vivian1 in 2.6K128KVivian528
PH Philippines#494≈70,000 est.≈1 in 1.6K—Vivian116
BR Brazil—54,722as Vivian1 in 3.9K55K—10
HU Hungary#12230,268as Vivien1 in 32330KVivien144
HK Hong Kong#107≈8,300 est.≈1 in 872—Vivian80
NL Netherlands#7597641 in 23K3KVivian85

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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Vivienne is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, United Kingdom, Philippines

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Viviënne, Viviènne, Viviënnë, Viviénne

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Viviènne, Viviënne

  • Swahili given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa, United States, United Kingdom, Kenya

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written Viviénne

  • Italian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Italy, Netherlands

    Also written Viviènne

  • Russian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United Kingdom, United States, Russia, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Вивьенн, Вивиенне

51 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Vivienne is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • French feminine form of ) Vivien, popular also in the English-speaking world as an unambiguously female form of the name. Voirrey ° Manx form of Mary, representing the vocative form (cf. Irish Mhuire).

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In English, A female given name from Latin borrowed from French, a variant of Vivian.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, a female given name, masculine equivalent Vivien

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In French, Du latin vivus « vivant »; forme française de Viviane. Fête non indiquée ici.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

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)

1850190019502000Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot, b. 1888Vivienne Osborne, b. 1896Vivienne Segal, b. 1897Vivienne Westwood, b. 1941Vivienne Chandler, b. 1947Patti Scialfa, b. 1953Vivienne Tam, b. 1957Viviënne van den Assem, b. 1983Vivienne Acheampong, b. 1984Vivienne Medrano, b. 1992

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 65 sources across 37 countries.

Official registers attesting Vivienne
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202015K#1,912
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20251.8K—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—764#1,546
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202266—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—66#55,051
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)198023—
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—21#61,281
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20209#1,912

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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

What are other forms of the name Vivienne?
In the etymology graph, Viviana, Viviane and Bibiana are forms of the same name in other languages.
Is Vivienne a male or female name?
Vivienne 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 does the name Vivienne mean, and where does it come from?
Latin ‘living’; a French form, perhaps influenced by Celtic Ninian. Recorded by Irish first names.
In which country does Vivienne have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 833 thousand people named Vivian in China, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Vivienne most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vivienne is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 23 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Vivienne?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 764 people named Vivienne, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
How common is Vivienne compared with other names?
In Hong Kong, Vivienne is the 107th most common given name of 23,276 given names recorded there.

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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, “Vivienne” — the 107th most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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