Is Vivien a male or female name?
Vivien is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 100% and male usage in France at 100%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- female
- Probability
- 54%
- Sample size
- 21,142
- Confidence
- high
Vivien by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| France FR | male | 100% | 9,595 | insee |
| United States US | female | 100% | 7,315 | ssa |
| Switzerland CH | female | 90% | 1,232 | bfs |
| Austria AT | female | 100% | 998 | statat |
| England and Wales GB | female | 100% | 782 | ons |
| Poland PL | female | 99% | 643 | pesel |
| Canada CA | female | 100% | 411 | statcan |
| Ireland IE | female | 98% | 166 | cso |
Attested in 15 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AT · AU · BE · CA · CH · ES · FR · GB · HU · IE · IN · LU · PL · SE · US
Vivien over time
In the United States, 100% of the babies named Vivien in the 1900s were girls, against 100% in the 2020s. In France, 5% of the babies named Vivien in the 1950s were girls, against 0% in the 2010s.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 100% | 111 | — | |
| 1910s | 99% | 513 | — | |
| 1920s | 97% | 789 | — | |
| 1930s | 100% | 344 | — | |
| 1940s | 100% | 636 | — | |
| 1950s | 100% | 341 | 5% | 100 |
| 1960s | 100% | 199 | — | |
| 1970s | 100% | 116 | 0% | 900 |
| 1980s | 100% | 113 | 0% | 4,090 |
| 1990s | 100% | 355 | 0% | 2,765 |
| 2000s | 100% | 937 | 0% | 1,030 |
| 2010s | 100% | 2,097 | 0% | 345 |
| 2020s | 100% | 673 | — |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Vivien with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Vivien&country=FR" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Vivien
Is Vivien a male or female name?
Vivien is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 100% and male usage in France at 100%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Vivien change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Vivien identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.