Vivienne, the French form of Viviana and variant of Vivian, comes from the Latin name Vivianus and Latin word vivus, meaning "alive." It was scarcely used in the early 1900s, but started gaining popularity in 2009 and has been a top-300 girl's name every year since 2013, with the exception of 2021 and 2022. Its popularity in the U.S. today is widely attributed to actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, who share a daughter named Vivienne Marcheline, born in 2008. Other parents use it as a fashion-inspired name thanks to Vivienne Westwood.
