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Vivian is a given name, originally a Latin name of the Roman Empire period, masculine ''Vivianus'' and feminine ''Viviana'', which survived into modern use because it is the name of two early Christian female martyrs as well as of a male saint and bishop. ==History and variants== The Latin name ''Vivianus'' is recorded from the 1st century.〔 Bruce W. Frier, Thomas A. J. McGinn, Thomas A. McGinn, ''A Casebook on Roman Family Law'', Oxford University Press, 2004, (p. 477 ).〕 It is ultimately related to the adjective ''vivus'' "alive", but it is formed from the compound form ''vivi-''〔compare ''vivi-parus'' "viviparous", ''vivi-fico'' "vivify"; also ''vividus'' "vivid".〕 and the adjectival ''-ānus'' suffix used to form ''cognomina''. The latinate given name ''Vivianus '' was of limited popularity in the medieval period in reference to Saint Vivianus, a 5th-century bishop of Saintes; the feminine name was that of Saint Viviana (Bibiana), a 4th-century martyr whose veneration in Rome is ascertained for the 5th century. The name was brought to England with the Norman invasion, and is occasionally recorded in England in the 12th and 13th centuries. The masculine given name appears with greater frequency in the early modern period. The spelling ''Vivian'' was historically used only as a masculine name, but in the 19th century was also given to girls and was a unisex name until the early part of the 20th century; since the mid 20th century, it has been almost exclusively given as a feminine name in the United States. Use of ''Vivian'' as a feminine name in the US peaked in popularity in 1920 at rank 64, but declined in the second half of the 20th century, falling below rank 500 in the 1980s. Its popularity has again picked up somewhat since the 1990s, as of 2012 having attained rank 140.〔("Vivian" at Behind the Name )〕 Variants of the feminine name include ''Viviana'', ''Viviane'', ''Vivienne''. The French feminine spelling ''Vivienne'' in the United States has peaked sharply in recent years from below rank 1,000 (no statistical record) to rank 322 in the period 2009–2012.〔("Vivienne" at Behind the Name )〕 The Italian or Latin form ''Viviana'' has enjoyed some popularity since the 1990s, reaching rank 322 in 2000.〔("Viviana" at Behind the Name )〕 The spelling ''Vivien'' is the French masculine form, but in English speaking countries it has long been used as a feminine form, due to its appearance as the name of the Arthurian Lady of the Lake in Tennyson's ''Idylls of the King'' of 1859.〔("Vivien" at Behind the Name )〕 For the masculine name, the variant ''Vyvyan'' has sometimes been used, based on the Cornish surname itself derived from the given name. The intermediary form ''Vyvian'' is also occasionally found. The Gaelic name Ninian has sometimes been identified as a corruption of ''Vivian'', but it is now considered more likely derived from Welsh ''Nynniaw'', which is itself of uncertain origin, but likely renders ''Nennius''. Bébinn is an unrelated, genuinely Gaelic name which has on occasion been rendered as ''Vivian'' in English. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vivian (given name)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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