Vivien
About 7,429 American babies have been named Vivien since 1885, most of them around 2014. In 2025 it ranked 1,844th. About 5,300 Viviens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Vivien boys named Vivien
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 7,429
- Estimated living today
- 5,300
- Median age today
- 14
- Peak year
- 2014
- Best rank
- 1,050th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,844th
- First recorded
- 1885
- Girls / boys
- 7,403 / 26
How old the living Viviens are
born that year still alive today
Of the 7,429 babies given the name since 1885, about 5,300 are alive — 71 in every hundred. Roughly 3,100 of them are children and 750 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Latin
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Viviens
- Vivien Leigh (1913–1967)British actress
- Vivien Merchant (1929–1982)English actress
- Vivien Thomas (1910–1985)American surgeon
- Vivien Keszthelyi (born 2000)Hungarian racing driver
- Vivien Cardone (born 1993)actress
- Vivien Endemann (born 2001)German footballer
- Vivien Lyra Blair (born 2012)American actress
- Vivien Oakland (1895–1958)American actress
People named Vivien with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Vivien is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Vivien is most concentrated in New York (2.4×), California (2.1×), Washington (1.5×), Illinois (1.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2014
The most popular girls’ names the year Vivien peaked:
Vivien elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Vivien | 9,590 | 104th |
| Switzerland girls | Vivien | 600 | 196th |
| England and Wales girls | Vivien | 591 | 963rd |
| Poland girls | Vivien | 421 birth registrations | 216th |
| Scotland girls | Vivien | 179 | 261st |
| Ireland girls | Vivien | 163 | 243rd |
| Belgium boys | Vivien | 16 | 625th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Vivien | 12 | 426th |
| France girls | Vivien | 5 | 1,640th |
| Ireland boys | Vivien | 3 | 256th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Vivien: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Vivien | 591 | 0.047% | 127th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Vivien | 3 | 0.001% | 859th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Vivien | 5 | 0.008% | 181st |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Vivien | 1 | 0.027% | 5th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Vivien is most concentrated in Zug, where 0.10% of children were given it – 26 of them.
Vivien: rank by region
In 1995, Vivien was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Vivien | 261 | 8 |
In 2025, Vivien was given 2 times or more in 3 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Małopolskie | Vivien | 232 | 2 |
| Mazowieckie | Vivien | 326 | 2 |
| Śląskie | Vivien | 219 | 3 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Vivien by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 25 | 292nd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Vivien among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Vivien | 93 | 136 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Vivien against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.