Meanings
- A female given name from Latin, an exclusively feminine spelling variant of Vivian.
He didn't like her first name. '"Vivian" - it's neither one thing nor the other. It'll confuse people. They won't know if you're a man or a woman. Will you agree to spelling it "Vivien"?'
1987, Alexander Walker, The Life of Vivien Leigh, Grove Press, published 1994, →ISBN, page 541 more example
"This habit you have contracted of being a little boy," his mamma said to him, "is most inconvenient. Your name was to be Vivien. Vivien is early English, and picturesque and full of color; Vivian, which is a boy's name, I don't think so much of. - - -
1897, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Piccino and Other Child Stories, Charles Scribner's Sons, page 161
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Vivien. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Vivien
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