as a First Name
Earlier generally taken as a variant of the boy's name Vivian, but now also rarely used for boys. This spelling was quite common in Old French. Its use as a girl's name in the English-speaking world was influenced by Tennyson's Merlin and Vivien (1859). This name, from Arthurian legend, may represent an altered form of a Celtic name (perhaps akin to the Irish Gaelic name Béibhinn ‘white lady’, pronounced ‘bee-veen’). The actress Vivien Leigh (1913–67) was christened Vivian.
| 3,647th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 4,102
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Hawaii
- has the most people named Vivien per capita
- 2010
- marked the height of its popularity
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