English

Proper noun

Vivian

1. A male given name.
2. A female given name.
3. A patronymic surname​.

Quotations

• 1827 Benjamin Disraeli, Vivian Grey, E. L. Carey and A. Hart (1837), page 117:

  "Mr. Grey," asked her ladyship, "are you of Dorsetshire?" "My mother is a Dorsetshire woman; her family name is Vivian, which name I also bear - Sir Hargrave Vivian, of Chester Grange."

• 1942 Caroline Mytinger, Headhunting in the Solomon Islands, Macmillan, page 13:

  Of the you're-going-to-get-it-anyway faction was a young Australian on board by the name, so help me, of Vivian Nankervis. - - - And he was beautiful, even with a name like Vivian; moreover, he had never been ill a day in his life.

• 1990 Paul Theroux, Chicago Loop, Hamish Hamilton Ltd, ISBN 0241129494, page70:

  'What's your name?' 'Vivian.' 'Isn't that one of the names that mean something?' She said, 'It means my mother used to go to the movies.'

Related terms

• Viv
• Viviana
• Viviane
• Vivien
• Vivienne
• Vyvyan

Translations

Danish

Proper noun

Vivian

1. A female given name, cognate to English Vivian.

Norwegian

Proper noun

Vivian

1. A female given name, cognate to English Vivian.

Swedish

Proper noun

Vivian

1. A female given name, one of the cognates of the English Vivian.

Related terms

• Vivi-Ann, Vivi-Anne, Viviann, Vivianne