Vivian

Where Vivian comes from

Early saints' name from Latin Vīviānus, and of its feminine form Vīviāna, probably from vīvus (“alive”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Vivian
  • Latin
  • 3 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #342 among girls — 22 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1920
    Peak, #64
    4,128 babies named Vivian — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1926
    Vivian Maier born
    French-American photographer
  4. 1983
    Vivian Cheruiyot born
    Kenyan long-distance runner
  5. 2025
    The comeback
    Back to #70 after sinking to #536 in 1981.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Latin.
  • A female given name from Latin.
Namesakes
  • Vivian Maier · French-American photographer, 1926–2009
  • Vivian Cheruiyot · Kenyan long-distance runner, born 1983
  • Vivian Woodward · English footballer, 1879–1954
  • Vivian Campbell · Northern Irish guitarist, born 1962
  • Vivian Kong Man-wai · member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, Hong Kong female politician, and ex-Hong Kong female fencer, born 1994

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.