Vivian Name Meaning, Origin, Celebrities, Graphic Designs

Name: Vivian, Vivien, Vivienne

Pronunciation: v(i)-vian

Origin: Latin

Meaning: lively

Gender: gender-neutral, unisex, but mainly feminine given name (girl’s name)

Story of Vivian given name 🔗

Vivian is a gender-neutral name of Latin origin, meaning “lively”. This name derives from the Latin name masculine Vivianus and feminine Viviana, which comes from the Latin word vivus, meaning “alive” This name inspires a vibrant life and legacy both, already standing the test of time since the 19th century.

The Latin name Vivianus is ultimately related to the adjective vivus “alive”, but it is formed from the compound form vivi- and the adjectival -ānus suffix used to form cognomina.

The latinate given name Vivianus was of limited popularity in the medieval period in reference to Saint Vivianus, a 5th-century bishop of Saintes; the feminine name was that of Saint Viviana (Bibiana), a 4th-century martyr whose veneration in Rome is ascertained for the 5th century.

In Arthurian legend, Vivian in its various spellings is one of the names of the Lady of the Lake.

Variants of Vivian given name 🔗

Variants of the feminine name include:

• Viviana
• Viviane
• Vivienne.

The French feminine spelling:

• Vivienne

in the United States rose sharply in recent years from below rank 1,000 (no statistical record) to rank 322 in the period 2009–2012.

The Italian or Latin form Viviana has enjoyed some popularity since the 1990s, reaching rank 322 in 2000. The spelling:

• Vivien

is the French masculine form, but in English speaking countries it has long been used as a feminine form, due to its appearance as the name of the Arthurian Lady of the Lake in Tennyson’s Idylls of the King of 1859.

For the masculine name, the variant:

• Vyvyan

has sometimes been used, based on the Cornish surname itself derived from the given name. The intermediary form:

• Vyvian

is also occasionally found.

Common Nicknames for Vivian 🔗

• Viv
• Vivi
• Vivianna
• Van
• Viana

Graphic designs for Vivian given name 🔗

The given name, Vivian, is formed with colorful roses and flowers:

List of individuals with the name 🔗

Masculine given name 🔗

• Vivian
  • Vivian Anderson (born 1956), English football coach and defender
  • Vivian Balakrishnan (born 1961), Singaporean politician
  • Vivian Bendall (born 1938), English Conservative politician
  • Vivian Blake (1956–2010), Jamaican criminal
  • Vivian Blake (politician) (1921–2000), Jamaican politician and chief justice of the Bahamas
  • Vivian Bose (1891–1983), judge of the Supreme Court of India
  • Vivian de Buffrénil (born 1950), French histologist and palaeobiologist
  • Vivian Campbell (born 1962), Northern Irish heavy metal guitarist
  • Vivian Cook (linguist) (1940–2021), English linguist and professor of Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University
  • Vivian Crawford (1879–1922), English first-class cricketer
  • Vivian Dsena (born 1988), Indian TV actor
  • Vivian Ellis (1904–1996), English musical comedy composer
  • Vivian Frederick Maynard FitzSimons (1901–1975), South African herpetologist
  • Sir Vivian Fuchs (1908–1999), English explorer to first cross Antarctica overland
  • Vivian Hunter Galbraith (1889–1976), English historian and Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford University|Oxford
  • Vivian H. H. Green (1915–2005), rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, and inspiration for John le Carré’s character George Smiley
  • Vivian Harris (born 1978), Guyanese boxer
  • Vivian Wilson Henderson (1923–1976), American educator and human rights activist
  • Vivian Imerman (born 1955), South African businessman and former CEO of Del Monte Foods
  • Vivian Jackson (1946–2010), Jamaican reggae musician also known as Yabby You
  • Clive Vivian Leopold James (Clive James, 1939–2019), Australian author
  • Sir Vivian Naylor-Leyland, 3rd Baronet (1924–1987), British aristocrat and banker
  • Viv Prince (born 1941), English drummer with the band Pretty Things
  • Sir Viv Richards (born 1952), Antiguan cricketer and sports commentator
  • Vivian Roy Stanley Schokman (1887-1953), Sri Lankan Burgher politician and physician
  • Major General Vivian Street (1912–1970), British army officer, also known for his charitable work, particularly as chairman of the Save the Children fund
  • Vivian Van Damm (1895–1960), English impresario of the Windmill Theatre, London
  • Vivian Wineman (born 1950), commercial lawyer, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews 2009–2015
  • Vivian Woodward (1879–1954), English centre forward footballer
• Vivien
  • Vivien Thomas (1910–1985), American surgical technician
• Vivion
  • Vivion de Valera (1910–1982), Irish politician, eldest son of Éamon de Valera & Sinéad de Valera.
• Vyvyan
  • Vyvyan Adams (1900–1951), British Conservative Party politician
  • Vyvyan Donnithorne (1886–1968), British Anglican missionary to China
  • Vyvyan Evans, professor of Linguistics
  • Vyvyan Evelegh (1898–1958), British Army Second World War major-general
  • Vyvyan Holland (1886–1967), English author/translator, second son of Oscar Wilde
  • Vyvyan Holt (1896–1960), British soldier, diplomat, and Oriental scholar
  • Vyvyan Pope (1891–1941), British Army Second World War lieutenant-general
• Vyvian
  • Vyvian Pike (born 1969), English cricketer
• Stage name or nickname
  • “Vivian”, a nickname given to Chaim Herzog in the 1940s
  • Vivian Stanshall, stage name of Victor Anthony Stanshall (1943–1995), English comedic musician
  • The Vivienne (1992–2025), stage name of James Lee Williams, British drag queen

Feminine given name 🔗

• Late antiquity
  • Saint Vibiana (3rd century)
  • Saint Vivian (4th century)
• Vivian
  • Vivian Inez Archibald (born 1945), British Virgin Islander politician
  • Vivian Bang (born 1983), American actress
  • Vivian Barbot (born 1941), Canadian politician
  • Vivian Cheruiyot (born 1983), Kenyan long-distance runner
  • Vivian Chukwuemeka (born 1975), Nigerian shot putter
  • Vivian Dandridge (1921–1991), American actress
  • Vivian Fine (1913–2000), American composer
  • Vivian Flowers (born c. 1969), American politician
  • Vivian Garrison (1933–2013), American applied medical anthropologist
  • Vivian Gornick (born 1935), American author
  • Vivian Green (born 1979), American R&B singer
  • Vivian Holt (1885–1945), American singer
  • Vivian Ikechukwu (boen 1997), Nigerian footballer
  • Vivi Janiss (1911–1988), American actress
  • Vivian Annabelle Johnson (1912–1985), American physicist
  • Vivian Joseph (born 1948), American figure skater
  • Vivian Kong (born 1994), Hong Kong fencer
  • Vivian Kubrick (born 1960), American-born English filmmaker and composer
  • Vivian Lau (born 1979), Hong Kong boccia player
  • Vivian Maier (1926–2009), American photographer
  • Vivian Nouri (born 1993), known professionally as Nouri, New Zealand recording artist of Kurdish descent
  • Vivian Oparah (born 1996), British actress
  • Vivian Schuyler Key (1905–1990), American artist, designer
  • Vivian Silver (1949–2023), Canadian-Israeli peace activist
  • Vivian Blanche Small (1875-1946), president, Lake Erie College
  • Vivian Vance (1909–1979), American actress
• Vivien
  • Vivien Bishop (born 1945), New Zealand painter
  • Vivien Cardone (born 1993), American actress
  • Vivien Duffield (born 1946), British philanthropist
  • Vivien Hailstone (1913–2000), Native American designer and educator
  • Vivien Kirk, New Zealand mathematician
  • Vivien Knight (1953–2009), British art historian and gallerist
  • Vivien Leigh, born Vivian Mary Hartley (1913–1967), English Academy Award-winning actress
  • Vivien Neves (1947–2002), British glamour model
  • Vivien Sansour (born 1978), Palestinian visual artist
• Viviane
  • Viv Albertine (born 1954), British guitarist, songwriter and author
  • Viviane Araújo (born 1986), Brazilian mixed martial artist
  • Viviane Bampassy, Senegalese politician
  • Viviane Biviga, Gabonese politician
  • Vivi Fernandez (born 1977), Brazilian model
  • Viviane Hagner (born 1977), German violinist
  • Viviane Ndour, Senegalese singer
  • Viviane Nicaise (born 1952), Belgian cartoonist and colorist
  • Viviane Romance (1912–1991), French actress
• Vivianne
  • Vivianne Blanlot (born 1956), Chilean economist and politician
  • Vivianne Crowley, English author, university lecturer, psychologist, and teacher of the Wiccan religion
  • Vivianne Fock Tave, Seychellois diplomat
  • Vivianne Miedema (born 1996), Dutch forward footballer
  • Vivianne Pasmanter (born 1971), Brazilian actress
  • Viviane Ventura, Mother of Sheherazade Goldsmith and author
• Vivienne
  • Vivienne Anderson, New Zealand professor of education
  • Vivienne Boyd (1926–2011), New Zealand politician
  • Vivienne Binns (born 1940), Australian artist
  • Vivienne Chandler (1947–2013), French actress and photographer
  • Vivienne Faull (born 1955), British Anglican bishop and Lord Spiritual
  • Vivienne Goonewardene (1916–1996), Sri Lankan politician
  • Vivienne Newton Gray (1917–1988), American educator in Liberia
  • Vivienne Haigh-Wood Eliot (1888–1947), first wife of poet and writer T. S. Eliot
  • Vivienne Malone-Mayes (1932–1995), American mathematician and professor
  • Vivienne Medrano (born 1992), Salvadorian American animator, illustrator, comic creator, and voice actress
  • Vivienne Ming, American theoretical neuroscientist and artificial intelligence expert
  • Vivienne Osborne (1896–1961), American stage and film actress
  • Vivienne (1889–1982), British photographer and singer
  • Vivienne Pinay, Filipino-American drag queen
  • Vivienne Roumani (born 1950), Libyan filmmaker
  • Vivienne Segal (1897–1992) American actress
  • Vivienne de Silva Boralessa (1930–2017), Sri Lankan singer
  • Vivienne Spence (born 1965), Jamaican track and field athlete
  • Vivienne Trumpy (1917–1975), stage name Vivi Gioi, Italian actress
  • Vivienne de Watteville (1900–1957), United Kingdom author
  • Vivienne Westwood (1941–2022), English fashion designer
• Vyvienne
  • Vyvienne Long, Irish musician
• Vyvyan
  • Vyvyan Lorrayne, South African ballerina
• Vyvyane
  • Vyvyane Loh, Chinese Hui-Shien, Malaysian-American novelist, choreographer, and physician
  • Hypocoristic Vivi (used as given name in Scandinavia)
  • Vivi Bach (1939–2013), Danish actress and singer
  • Vivi Flindt (born 1943), Danish ballerina
  • Vivi Friedman (1967–2012), Finnish film director
  • Vivi Krogh (1919–2014), Norwegian anti-immigration activist
• As a pseudonym or adopted name
  • Vivian Chow (born 1967), Hong Kong singer and actress
  • Vivian Hsu (born 1975), Taiwanese singer, actress and model
  • Vivienne Poy (born 1941), politician
  • Vivienne Tam (born 1957), Hong Kong fashion designer
  • Vivean Gray, British TV and film actress (adopted name of Jean Vivra Gray)
  • Vivienne Mort, Ukrainian indie rock band

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