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Vivien

#1,854 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly alive, through Vivian

Vivien has been given to 7,429 babies in the U.S. since 1885. In 2025 it ranked #1,854 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 248 recorded.

Babies named Vivien, 2025

1 in 30,700

Vivien over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Vivien: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly alive, through Vivian

Latin

What Vivien means

Vivien belongs to the name family reached through Vivien → Vivian. Its meaning is “alive”.

Origin, language, and formation

Vivien is used in English and French. Its origins include Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Vivian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Vivien is pronounced /vi.vjɛ̃/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,403 girls were recorded with the name Vivien between 1885 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 248 in 2014; its best national rank was #515 in 1911.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,333 in 2020 to #1,854 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,087 in 2015 to #1,854 in 2025.

In the United States, 26 boys were recorded with the name Vivien between 1913 and 1924. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1924; its best national rank was #3,239 in 1913.

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 Vivien?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 30,700
108 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 14,900
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,854
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
21,278 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Vivien 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 21,278 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vivien. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Viviens were born

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

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
28.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
50.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,945
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 28.3% of all recorded uses (2,098).

Is Vivien 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
−136
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−521
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−767
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.45×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
43.5%
Peak was 2014 (248)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#515
1911

Spellings of Vivien

Vivien is not the most common spelling — Vivian is, with 77.4% against Vivien's 2.5%.

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 Vivien is used

Across 2016–2025, Vivien was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 5,263 girls, against 1 in 10,961 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 100,000).

119 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 5,263
  2. 2Ohio1 in 6,667
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 7,692
  4. 4New York1 in 7,692
  5. 5Illinois1 in 8,333
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 8,333
  7. 7California1 in 9,091
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 9,091

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.

Vivien around the world

Where Vivien 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
    1996–2025
    #1,454
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1974–2023
    #630
    in 2023
  • Northern Ireland
    2011–2019
    #424
    in 2019
  • Ireland
    1964–2022
    #747
    in 2022
  • France
    1957–1957
    #1,640
    in 1957
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #1,709
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1944–2010
    #801
    in 2010

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

Notable people named Vivien

People whose public names include Vivien, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Vivien in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Vivien. Linked forms have their own page here.

BibianVivianBibianoVivianaVivianeVivianoVivianneVivienne

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Vivien by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,854
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 521
Best rank ever
#515
1911
Peak year
2014
248 that year
First recorded
1885
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,403
Count in 2025
108

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,239
1913
Peak year
1924
9 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
1924
All-time count
26
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Vivien

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

ViviannaVivicaVivianaVivaVivianneVivienneVivianeAdrienViviannViviaLorienVivianVivikaVivanViviDarienVivecaVivyanJulienMarienVivieLillienVivekaVivion

Names with a curve like Vivien

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Vivien, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

LucieEvalynRoselynIsobelAnnaleeArieEmmalineCordeliaEmelineAudreeLilliaEllena

Sibling names for Vivien

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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