girls:
7.2k births since 1885
#1926 (66th percentile)
boys:
26 births since 1913
#4560 (1st percentile)
overall:
7.2k births since 1885
#3179 (59th percentile)
The name Vivien is the #3,179 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,200 recorded births since 1885. This represents the 58.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 58.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,926 (66.3% percentile) for all time with 7,174 births since 1885. For boys, it ranks #4,560 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 26 births since 1913.
Vivien first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1885 (1885 for girls and 1913 for boys). Birth data for Vivien is available in 134 out of the 139 years between 1885 and 2023 (134 years for girls and 4 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Vivien has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Vivien reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 24.7% percentile (ranked #728) with 127 births per million. The name was most common in 1911, with 149 births per million (ranked 14.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Vivien ranks #834 for girls (11.9% percentile) with 67 births per million, which is 45.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Vivien reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #550) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1913, with 9 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1924.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Vivien".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Vivian. View all variations of Vivian.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Vivien", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 11 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Vivian" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Vivian..
Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Vivien. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 58.7% confident that Vivien is pronounced as VIH-vee-uhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is VIH-vee-ehn, at 26.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Vivien? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Vivien. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Vivien, please vote using the thumbs up button.
Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like V IH1 V IY0 AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker