Vivien

given name · Hungarian · Latin script

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

Vivien is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Hungary it is the 89th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Latin Vivianus, from vivus ‘alive, living’.

rarermore common
  • HUHungary1 in 323◐
  • HKHong Kong1 in 2K
  • AUAustralia1 in 2.2K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈235K ●

across 11 countries

6 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
469 ●

1.6M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 323 ◐

Hungary

Spellings & scripts●

VivianLatin · English●1.3M records
ויויאןHebrew · Hebrew●15K records
วิเวียนThai · Thai●415 records
ᲕივიანGeorgian · Georgian●18 records
ΒίβιενGreek · Greek●0 records
비비언Hangul · Korean●0 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Vivian in US United States, GB United Kingdom, BR Brazil and 16 more, Vivienne in ZA South Africa, FI Finland, NZ New Zealand and ויויאן in IL Israel, FR France.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

From Latin Vivianus, from vivus ‘alive, living’.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Vivien is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#388128,2131.2M rec.1 in 2.6K128KVivian469
GB United Kingdom#32892,04981K rec.—5Vivian163
BR Brazil—54,722△214 rec.1 in 3.9K55KVivian11
AU Australia#36052,78750K rec.—7Vivian190
DE Germany#46936,65333K rec.——Vivien168
PH Philippines#62835,23431K rec.——Vivian104
CA Canada#36133,99729K rec.—17Vivian178
HU Hungary#8930,268△4.5K rec.1 in 32330KVivien139
NG Nigeria#34621,26028K rec.——Vivian108
IL Israel#75011,67213K rec.—373ויויאן40
MY Malaysia#43910,9278K rec.—839Vivian89
FR France—9,405△410 rec.1 in 7.2K9.4Kויויאן7

Roughly 128K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 2.6K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hungarian343K63%
  • English66K12%
  • French66K12%
  • German25K5%
  • Spanish8K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hungarian343,28663%
English66,30412%
French65,96812%
German24,7765%
Spanish8,0141%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Vivien is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name87K records spelled Vivien7 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Vîvîen, Vívìen, Vïvîen, Vïvïēn, Vivíen

  • Spanish given name17K records spelled Vivien20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Brazil, Philippines, United States

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Vivienne, Viviënne, Vívien, Viviènne, Viviënnë

  • Portuguese given name6.1K records spelled Vivien82 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Poland, Czechia

    Languages: Portuguese, Polish, Spanish

    Also written Viviane, Vivian, Вивиан, Вівіан

  • a separate given name2.3K records spelled Vivien2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Switzerland

    Also written Vívien

  • Swahili given name1.9K records spelled Vivien4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Kenya, Nigeria, Philippines

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written Viviën

  • Croatian given name666 records spelled Vivien9 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Macedonian

    Also written Вивиен, Vivièn

  • Italian given name415 records spelled Vivien3 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Vivienne, Viviènne

49 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●

Vivien is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • From Latin. See main dictionary. Vivienne § Feminine form of viviEN. x

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In English, A female given name from Latin, an exclusively feminine spelling variant of Vivian.

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

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

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In French, Du latin Vivianus, dérivé de vivus « vivant ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In English, Latin: see Vyvyan

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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.

Over time●

0100200300190019502000248 · 2014

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Vivien in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1885–2025
Yearrecords
18855
18906
18925
18938
189418
189512
18969
18978
189812
18998
190015
190112
19027
19036
190410
190512
190610
190721
190810
19098
191026
191166
191274
191338
191440
191553
191647
191748
191859
191957
192054
192158
192272
192379
1924110
192589
192681
192787
192880
192958
193057
193133
193234
193331
193430
193530
193628
193728
193821
193952
1940148
194193
194261
194350
194446
194548
194657
194750
194850
194933
195040
195147
195247
195335
195432
195525
195622
195738
195830
195925
196034
196131
196224
196320
196422
196511
196614
196722
19689
196912
197012
197110
197210
19738
197410
197515
19768
197715
19788
197920
19809
198111
198215
19838
198410
19859
19869
198718
198812
198912
199023
199133
199226
199335
199434
199531
199649
199737
199842
199946
200060
200157
200265
200396
200491
2005100
2006113
2007104
2008100
2009151
2010209
2011175
2012190
2013204
2014248
2015241
2016221
2017219
2018198
2019193
2020166
2021156
2022118
2023118
2024119
2025108

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 136 years between 1885–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1900195020002050Vivien Greene, b. 1904Vivien Thomas, b. 1910Vivien Leigh, b. 1913Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, b. 1920Vivien Merchant, b. 1929Hayley Mills, b. 1946Blue Angel, b. 1988Vivien Endicott-Douglas, b. 1990Vivien Cardone, b. 1993Vivien Lyra Blair, b. 2012

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●

Attested in 90 sources across 48 countries.

Official registers attesting Vivien
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)202530K#40
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20249.4K#3,096
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20205.9K#3,462
HU Hungarymagyarnevek — given names by decade19971.3K#1
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)2024966#224
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—637#595
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026637#595
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)1991465—
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—377#622
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—335#18,408
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022331—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—330#17,785

Reference works 7

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 721 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Vivien?
We estimate roughly 235 thousand people bear Vivien (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Vivien have the most bearers?
We estimate about 128 thousand people bear Vivien in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled vivian.
Where is Vivien most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vivien is densest in Hungary — about 1 in 323 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is Vivien compared with other names?
In the United States, Vivien is the 388th most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.
Is Vivien a male or female name?
Vivien 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 Vivien mean?
Recorded meaning: From Latin Vivianus, from vivus ‘alive, living’.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Vivien” — the 388th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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