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.

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

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