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My first name is Vivian. I hated it as a name growing up in the 1980s, it sounded so old and stuffy to me, compared to my friends who were all callled Kim, Tracey, Cindy, Ginger, Robin and other such cutesy names. I opted to go by my middle name instead, which is Alycia. Now, as an adult I love the name Vivian, and am very proud of it. I really wished I had toughed it out and used it as my name. It is elegant, and sophisticated. I would love to have the nickname "Viv" or "Vivie" both of which are so "now" as names.

My grandmother, whom I never met, was Adelaide Vivian. I hear she was a saint.

We named our daughter Vivian. It has been met with a warm reception. We use Viv for nickname occasionally.

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Viv
Vi
Vivi/Vivie
Viviana
Fi
Fifi
Nan
Van
Vivo
Ivy
Annie

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Famous real-life people named Vivian: | Edit

Vivian Vance, American actress
Vivian Dandridge, American actress
Vivian Green, American singer
Vivian Joseph, American figure skater
Vivian Hsu, Taiwanese singer

Vivian in song, story & screen: | Edit

Vivian Banks, character on the '90s sitcom "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air"
Lady of the Lake, in Arthurian mythology, sometimes named Viviane
Vivian, a character from Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door
Vivian was the name of call-girl, main character in the 1990 film Pretty Woman played by Julia Roberts
Vyvyan Basterd, a character on the 1980s British TV comedy The Young Ones
Vivian Harmon, a character on the TV series American Horror Story
Princess Vivian is a minor character in Sofia the First