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Vivien

A female given name, an exclusively feminine spelling variant of Vivian.
- 1897 Frances Hodgson Burnett, Piccino and Other Child Stories, Charles Scribner's Sons, page 161:
  "This habit you have contracted of being a little boy," his mamma said to him, "is most inconvenient. Your name was to be Vivien. Vivien is early English, and picturesque and full of color; Vivian, which is a boy's name, I don't think so much of. - - -
- 1987 Alexander Walker, The Life of Vivien Leigh, Grove Press (1994), ISBN 0802132596, page 54:
  He didn't like her first name. '"Vivian" - it's neither one thing nor the other. It'll confuse people. They won't know if you're a man or a woman. Will you agree to spelling it "Vivien"?'

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See also: Vivien

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