Vivienne
From Latin, and the name says it outright: alive, full of life. Barely known in Poland, where most people have never met one, but it's being given more often again: 18 newborn girls last year.
Vivienne Pronunciation
What Vivienne means
Where Vivienne comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Vivienne grows from the Latin vivus, meaning alive. The same root gives us words like vivid and revive, and it stands behind the short meaning that follows the name everywhere: alive, full of life. French speakers shaped it into a soft, singing feminine form, and English took it up gladly.
The name also has a literary shadow. In Arthurian legend, Vivien or Viviane is the Lady of the Lake, the enchantress who traps Merlin. Tennyson wrote her into his Idylls of the King. That older spelling and the fuller Vivienne share the same Latin ancestor.
Say it on a Polish register. A teacher reads Vivienne from a class list, and the Latin root sits under the French polish. There are no Polish diminutives fixed to it, no name-day slot in the older calendars. What travels with it is the meaning: żywa, pełna życia, alive and full of life.
How many people are named Vivienne
1 in 59326 women in Poland is named Vivienne. 380 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1525 among female names.
Vivienne's popularity over time
18 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #544 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2006.
Where parents choose Vivienne
Vivienne is most popular in Lower Silesian, 108% above the national average (8 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Greater Poland (+89%) and Pomeranian (+66%). It is least common in Silesian and Łódź, 46% and 36% below average respectively.
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Lower Silesian
+108%1 in 19,642 babies
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Greater Poland
+89%1 in 21,524 babies
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Pomeranian
+66%1 in 24,554 babies
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Silesian
−46%1 in 75,861 babies
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Łódź
−36%1 in 63,359 babies
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Subcarpathian
−32%1 in 60,283 babies
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Lower Silesian+108% 8 born1 in 19,642 babies+108%
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Greater Poland+89% 10 born1 in 21,524 babies+89%
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Pomeranian+66% 6 born1 in 24,554 babies+66%
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Lubusz+64% 2 born1 in 24,829 babies+64%
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Lublin+59% 4 born1 in 25,669 babies+59%
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Masovian+27% 11 born1 in 32,206 babies+27%
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Lesser Poland−10% 5 born1 in 45,383 babies−10%
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Subcarpathian−32% 2 born1 in 60,283 babies−32%
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Łódź−36% 2 born1 in 63,359 babies−36%
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Silesian−46% 3 born1 in 75,861 babies−46%
Vivienne as a middle name
Vivienne is a first name for 380 women in Poland and a middle name for another 84, an 82/18 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 723rd, between Viktoriia (84) and Catalina (83).
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#721 Iwa84
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#722 Viktoriia84
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#723 Vivienne84
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#724 Catalina83
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#725 Eufrozyna83