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Vianne

Gender
Girl
Say it
vee-AN
Origin
French
US rank, 2025
#9,454 for girls

Vianne is a girls' name of French origin. In 2025 it ranked 9,454th for girls in the US (10 babies).

What does Vianne mean?

French: French; perhaps a short form of Viviane

Vianne Rocher is the chocolate-maker heroine of Joanne Harris's 1999 novel Chocolat.

Is Vianne a girl's or a boy's name?

Vianne is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Vianne in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2001, with 4 girls.

2001Busiest: 4 in 20012014
Vianne in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20144#4,888
20130–
20120–
20114#4,980
20100–
20090–
20080–
20070–
20060–
20054#4,150
20040–
20034#3,768
20020–
20014#3,427

How popular is Vianne in the US?

Rank in 2025
#9,454among girls
Babies in 2025
10about 1 in 160,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 10 girls in the US were named Vianne, making it the 9,454th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 2005, with 21 girls. It first appears in the records in 1936.

2025 had more girls named Vianne than any year since 2018.

Half of all the girls named Vianne in the US since 1880 were born between 1956 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.

1936Busiest: 21 in 20052025
Vianne in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202510#9,454
20245#15,288
20237#12,192
20228#11,225
20217#12,201
20207#12,137
20198#11,350
201812#8,612
20179#10,685
201615#7,599
201513#8,443
20146#14,552
20136#14,577
20129#11,251
201110#10,370
201013#8,697
20099#11,454
200810#10,802
200712#9,535
200610#10,606
200521#5,795
20049#10,684
200319#6,050
200218#6,124
200113#7,717
20000–
19990–
19980–
19970–
19960–
19950–
19940–
19930–
19920–
19910–
19900–
19890–
19880–
19870–
19860–
19850–
19840–
19835#10,272
19820–
19810–
19800–
19790–
19780–
19770–
19760–
19750–
19740–
19730–
19720–
19710–
19700–
19690–
19680–
19670–
19660–
19657#5,288
19640–
19630–
19627#5,292
19617#5,308
19609#4,436
19590–
19585#6,102
19570–
19569#4,160
195510#3,777
19548#4,276
19530–
19526#4,906
19518#4,010
19509#3,660
19490–
19480–
194711#3,238
19460–
19450–
19448#3,377
19436#4,195
19420–
19410–
19405#4,347
19396#3,780
19386#3,845
19375#4,253
19365#4,179

Names like Vianne

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Vianne: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/vianne, updated 20 October 2026.