Vivien 2

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Gender Feminine
Usage Literature, Hungarian
Pronounced Pron. /ˈvi.viʲ.ɛn/(Hungarian)

Meaning & History

Used by Alfred 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 [1]. A famous bearer was British actress Vivien Leigh (1913-1967), who played Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind.