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View Name: Vivien


VIVIEN (2)
GENDER: Feminine
USAGE: Literature
Meaning & History
Used by Alfred Lord Tennyson as the name of the Lady of the Lake in his Arthurian epic 'Idylls of the King' (1859). Tennyson may have based it on VIVIENNE, but it possibly arose as a misreading of NINIAN.
Related Names
OTHER LANGUAGES: Ninian, Nynniaw (Ancient Celtic), Vivian, Vivi (Danish), Vivian, Vivyan (English), Viviane, Vivianne, Vivienne (French), Ninian (Irish), Viviana, Bibiana (Italian), Viviana, Bibiana (Late Roman), Vivian, Vivi (Norwegian), Ninian (Scottish), Viviana, Bibiana (Spanish), Vivian, Vivi (Swedish)
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VIVIEN (1)



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