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Viviane

#5,543 in 2025Girls' name

Living

Viviane has been given to 1,014 babies in the U.S. since 1919. In 2025 it ranked #5,543 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 32 recorded.

Babies named Viviane, 2025

1 in 144,000

Viviane over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Viviane: meaning, origin, and history

Living

French

What Viviane means

Viviane means “living”, associated with vivus.

Origin, language, and formation

Viviane is used in English and French. Its origins include French.

Viviane comes through French Viviane.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Vivian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Viviane is pronounced /ˈvɪviən/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,014 girls were recorded with the name Viviane between 1919 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 32 in 2009; its best national rank was #2,920 in 1935.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,472 in 2020 to #5,543 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,718 in 2015 to #5,543 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Viviane?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 144,000
23 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 69,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,543
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
99,910 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Viviane sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Viviane. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Vivianes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Viviane was born before 2002 — so the typical Viviane is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
21.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
52.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
875
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2010s — 21.7% of all recorded uses (220).

Is Viviane rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,079
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−71
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−825
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.77×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
71.9%
Peak was 2009 (32)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,920
1935

Spellings of Viviane

Viviane is not the most common spelling — Vivian is, with 75.9% against Viviane's 0.34%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Viviane is used

Across 1910–2025, Viviane was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 566,668 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Viviane has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Viviane around the world

Where Viviane ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2002–2022
    #5,670
    in 2022
  • France
    1900–2025
    #2,776
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,109
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1950–1988
    #459
    in 1988

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Viviane by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,543
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 71
Best rank ever
#2,920
1935
Peak year
2009
32 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,014
Count in 2025
23

Names similar to Viviane

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Viviane

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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