Vivyan

given name · Latin script

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

/vivˈjɑn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 567K(measured from records)
  • SYSyria≈1 in 1.1M
  • BRBrazil1 in 1.1M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

195 people, 2022

Sources
39 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 567K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Vivyan 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 Vivyan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil1951 in 1.1M195Vivyan39
US United States1661 in 2M165Vivyan14
EG Egypt≈79 est.≈1 in 1.3M—Vivyan11
TR Türkiye≈23 est.≈1 in 3.6M—Vivyan2
GB United Kingdom≈20 est.≈1 in 3.3M18—4
AU Australia≈19 est.≈1 in 1.3M1——
SY Syria≈18 est.≈1 in 1.1M—Vivyan6
SE Sweden181 in 567K18Vivyan4

195 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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)

Vivyan is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Ṿiṿyan

31 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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)

InformalHi Vivyan,

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 18 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Vivyan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022195—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—194#25,877
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020165#42,918
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2010135—
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—86#24,662
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)200079—
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—72#42,104
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)201060—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)200056—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)199028—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)199028—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—18#25,974

Reference works 2

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 Vivyan?
A machine transcription gives /vivˈjɑn/ (IPA) for English.
Is Vivyan a male or female name?
Vivyan 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 Vivyan?
In the etymology graph, Vivian, Viviane and Vivien are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Vivyan have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 195 people named Vivyan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vivyan.
Where is Vivyan most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vivyan is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 567 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Vivyan?
In Brazil, the national register counted 195 people named Vivyan in 2022, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.

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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, “Vivyan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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