The French name Vivienne goes back to the Latin name Vivianus, which was derived from Latin ‘vivus’ for ‘alive’.
Vivienne is a first name for girls.
The name Vivienne isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Vivienne ranks 250. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 7 were named Vivienne. In the entire USA, approximately 16,196 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Vivienne. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
The French name Vivienne goes back to the Latin name Vivianus, which was derived from Latin ‘vivus’ for ‘alive’.
It was a popular ... name during the Middle Ages and was often associated with life and fertility.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter V is quite rare as an initial letter for girls' names: only 1.6% of all common girls' names in the US begin with V, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. But V is by no means the rarest initial. While Q, X and U are the least common initials of girls' names, the most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M.
With eight letters, the name Vivienne is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
From this follows that if 1.6% of all girls' names begin with a V, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Incidentally, of the comparatively few girls' names that begin with a V, Virginia is currently the most common.
If your name is Vivienne and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Vivienne, you can simply say:
Violin
Igloo
Violin
Igloo
Elephant
Nut
Nut
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Vivienne
Vivienne
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
V
I
V
I
E
N
N
E
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
V
I
V
I
E
N
N
E
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Vivienne sounds like this:
