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Hi, My name is Viveca and after having gone many years not hearing my name I moved to Washington, DC. It came to my attention that a neighbor shared my name, Viveca Novak (later to become a controversial journalist). My mother is from Sweden so I knew that it was a Swedish name. But now I live in New York and have a new neighbor whose name is Viveka! She claims her name is from the oldest language in the world and that my name is spelled incorrectly and is derived from Hindi.

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So, my question is is she right? My mother says it's an old Swedish name and in my research I have found it listed as both Scandanavian and German. My Swedish cousin claims that "noone" in Sweden is named Viveca.