Tracing the Viviani Family Name

Heraldry is personal. Arms recorded for a Viviani family belonged to that family, and other bearers of the name may have no link to them.

In the records

Spanish register data show 111 residents carrying Viviani as first surname, and 56 as second surname. INSEE counts 580 people born in France with the Viviani surname between 1891 and 2000; the busiest decade was 1961–1970. There were 8 such births in the 1890s and 53 in the 1990s.

Local archives often hold baptisms and marriages that never reached online indexes. No reliable dictionary entry explains Viviani, so any origin we give a client is traced from their own ancestors. Before any talk of crests, here are the plain facts about Viviani.

Get the complete Viviani report, with a museum-style coat of arms.