# Vivien (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/vivien/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Latin |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 7,429 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 26 / 7,403 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 591, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 175 | 1,334 |
| 2012 | 190 | 1,268 |
| 2013 | 204 | 1,183 |
| 2014 | 248 | 1,051 |
| 2015 | 241 | 1,087 |
| 2016 | 221 | 1,144 |
| 2017 | 219 | 1,137 |
| 2018 | 198 | 1,203 |
| 2019 | 193 | 1,214 |
| 2020 | 166 | 1,333 |
| 2021 | 156 | 1,404 |
| 2022 | 118 | 1,761 |
| 2023 | 118 | 1,748 |
| 2024 | 119 | 1,718 |
| 2025 | 108 | 1,854 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1913 | 5 | 3,240 |
| 1920 | 6 | 4,261 |
| 1923 | 6 | 4,216 |
| 1924 | 9 | 3,243 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 32 | 1,067 |
| 2012 | 21 | 1,483 |
| 2013 | 25 | 1,324 |
| 2014 | 38 | 963 |
| 2015 | 27 | 1,240 |
| 2016 | 17 | 1,749 |
| 2017 | 35 | 1,021 |
| 2018 | 32 | 1,083 |
| 2019 | 31 | 1,095 |
| 2020 | 19 | 1,556 |
| 2021 | 29 | 1,161 |
| 2022 | 24 | 1,326 |
| 2023 | 26 | 1,255 |
| 2024 | 23 | 1,406 |
| 2025 | 21 | 1,454 |

## People named Vivien

- Vivien Leigh, British actress (1913–1967)
- Vivien Merchant, English actress (1929-1982)
- Vivien Thomas, American surgeon (1910-1985)
- Vivien Cardone, actress
- Vivien Endemann, German footballer
- Vivien Lyra Blair, American actress
- Vivien Oakland, American actress (1895–1958)
- Vivien Brisse, French cyclist
- Hayley Mills, British actress (born 1946)
- Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, English writer (1920–2014)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.