Viviane

French variation of Viviana or Vivien

Viviane Origin and Meaning

The name Viviane is a girl's name.

Viviane is one of a cluster of names that may or may not be related. They include the Latin Viviana, which means life, and its modern forms Vivian and the French form Vivienne. But Vivien, pronounced identically, may be a literary invention connected instead to Ninian. Some sources also connect the Viv variations to the Irish Bebinn, the name of the goddess of childbirth, or Bevin.

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Famous People Named Viviane

• Viviane Sassen Dutch fashion photographer
• Viviane Moreira "Vivi" Fernandez Brazilian model
• Viviane Ndour Senegalese pop singer; former sister,in,law of singer Youssou N'Dour
• Viviane Reding Luxembourgian MEP
• Viviane Forrester French journalist and author
• Viviane Käser Swiss figure skater
• Viviane Araújo Brazilian model
• Viviane Brunieri Brazilian model
• Viviane Katrina Louise "Viv" Albertine British singer of punk group The Slits

The name Viviane in Pop Culture

• Viviane the Lady of the Lake, a character in The Mists of Avalon (1983) by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• Viviane Joan "Vivi" Abbott Walker in Divine Secrets of the Ya,Ya Sisterhood (1996) by Rebecca Wells
• Viviane Lady of the Winter Court (Badass Fem.) in Sarah J. Mass's A Court Of Wing And Ruin