Vivien

See also: vivien

English

Proper noun

Vivien

1. A female given name from Latin, an exclusively feminine spelling variant of Vivian.
   • 1897, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Piccino and Other Child Stories, Charles Scribner's Sons, page 161:

     "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. - - -

   • 1987, Alexander Walker, The Life of Vivien Leigh, Grove Press, published 1994, →ISBN, page 54:

     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"?'

French

Alternative forms

• Vidian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.vjɛ̃/

Proper noun

Vivien m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Vivian