Vivienne

Where Vivienne comes from

The dictionaries list Vivienne as a given name — a female given name from Latin borrowed from French, a variant of Vivian — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1895
    First appearance
    #1,592 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1941
    Vivienne Westwood born
    British fashion designer
  3. 1992
    Vivienne Medrano born
    American animator
  4. 2025
    Peak, #172
    1,786 babies named Vivienne — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Latin borrowed from French, a variant of Vivian.
Namesakes
  • Vivienne Westwood · British fashion designer, 1941–2022
  • Vivienne Medrano · American animator, born 1992
  • Vivienne Malone-Mayes · US mathematician, 1932–1995
  • Vivienne Chandler · French actress, 1947–2013
  • Vivienne Osborne · American actress, 1896–1961

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.