Vivien is from the Latin vivus (alive). Vivien Leigh (1913-1967) was the British actress who won two Best Actress Oscars — for Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) — among the most iconic performances in Hollywood history. Died at 53.
Subject of Hugo Vickers's Vivien Leigh (1988).
Vivien does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Vivien reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.