Viviane
Just 77 women in Poland carry it, and no girls got it last year: meeting one would stick with you. The name is Latin at root and means "living" or "alive".
Viviane Pronunciation
What Viviane means
Where Viviane comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Viviane grows from the Latin vivus, meaning alive, and from the verb vivere, to live. French speakers took the Latin Viviana and softened it into Viviane. The sense stayed literal. The name means living.
In the medieval Arthurian romances of the French Vulgate cycle, Viviane is the Lady of the Lake. She enchants Merlin and fosters the young Lancelot. That French literary figure fixed the name to France, where Viviane has been used for centuries as a form of Vivian and Viviana.
The Polish gloss, żywa, pełna życia, follows the Latin root without straining it. On a school register in Kraków, Viviane stands out among the Zuzannas and Oliwias. It is a French spelling resting on one old Latin word for alive.
How many people are named Viviane
1 in 292777 women in Poland is named Viviane. 77 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4081 among female names.
Viviane's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Viviane as a middle name
Viviane is a first name for 77 women in Poland and a middle name for another 15, an 84/16 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1947th, between Vanda (15) and Wesna (15).
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#1945 Valencia15
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#1946 Vanda15
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#1947 Viviane15
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#1948 Wesna15
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#1949 Wiara15