Viveca?

KFACE08

What do you think? My fiance's mom is German and moved here when she was seventeen. Viveca is a German name, but I've never seen it before. Thoughts on it? Good or horrible? How would you pronounce it?

Emiliana7

I've seen Vivica before (actress Vivica Fox) I assume Viveca is the German version?

Seems ok to me if that is the case (and you have that family history/ancestry)

To me (and my non-german self) it looks a little off with the e in there.

It reminds me of the word vivacious. (not a bad thing to be thought of!)

Brodyrox30

I think of Vivica A. Fox, the actress. Is it pronounced the same? vi-vi-kah? I like it, I had forgotten all about this name. Thanks! The family significance makes it all the better.

ctygrlstl

I like it, but if someone hadn't said Vivica, I wouldn't have known how to pronounce it. I also wouldn't have made any correlation to German. It looks more Latin to me. I also thought of vivacious and it made me think for some reason it was viv-ay-sha. But viv-a-ka, or even viv-ay-ka, sounds nice.  Either way I think it's a beautiful name, but it would be hard to spell and pronounce for others. Very unique, definitely cool.

KarBear

Nice name, but I prefer the spelling Vivica.

AlphabetFish

I like it! It's pretty, and familiar enough that it sounds right as a name, yet not overused. I approve.

KearaD

To be honest, it's kind of harsh sounding to me. (But I feel the same way about the name Vivian, and lots of people like that name.) 

Moxie27

when i see this name, i think of vivica fox, which isn't a good thing b/c she seems tacky to me.

Liz4444

One of my best friends is Viveka, her mother is Swedish.  They pronounce it Vee-vi-ka.

zaramarie81

ctygrlstl:

I like it, but if someone hadn't said Vivica, I wouldn't have known how to pronounce it. I also wouldn't have made any correlation to German. It looks more Latin to me. I also thought of vivacious and it made me think for some reason it was viv-ay-sha. But viv-a-ka, or even viv-ay-ka, sounds nice.  Either way I think it's a beautiful name, but it would be hard to spell and pronounce for others. Very unique, definitely cool.

It doesn't look German to me at all. The "V" in German is pronounced like an "F" and that would make this name a tongue-twister. According to behindthename.com, this spelling is not recognized at all as a name but Viveka pulls up as a Swedish name and Vivek is an Indian name.

If it's pronounced the way I think you're supposed to pronounce it, I think it sounds kind of lively and pretty,

mlf625

I think there are a lot of great German girl names, and this wouldn't make my top 10 list of those.