Liberty
Liberty was given to 195 girls in 2025, #1,188 among girls’ names; 15,409 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 14,800 Americans named Liberty and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 10 and 23.
Liberty dropped 212 places in 2025, the #11 drop among the girls’ top 1,000 of 2024.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Liberty by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Liberty mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Liberty is “a female given name from English.”
Also “a male given name from English.”
From liberty.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Liberty?
#1,188 among girls’ names, 2025
Liberty fell from #555 in 2015 to #1,188 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.31 to 0.12 per 1,000.
754 babies in 2004, the peak
Liberty peaked in 2004, when 754 babies were given it (749 girls, #406 among girls’ names). The 195 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 195 | #1,188 | 0.12 |
| 2024 | 266 | #976 | 0.16 |
| 2023 | 304 | #885 | 0.19 |
| 2022 | 377 | #761 | 0.23 |
| 2021 | 479 | #619 | 0.29 |
| 2020 | 443 | #652 | 0.27 |
| 2019 | 447 | #654 | 0.27 |
| 2018 | 534 | #578 | 0.31 |
| 2017 | 534 | #565 | 0.31 |
| 2016 | 577 | #543 | 0.33 |
Every recorded year (83)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 561 | #555 | 0.31 |
| 2014 | 548 | #560 | 0.31 |
| 2013 | 565 | #530 | 0.32 |
| 2012 | 492 | #593 | 0.28 |
| 2011 | 513 | #568 | 0.29 |
| 2010 | 594 | #501 | 0.33 |
| 2009 | 586 | #518 | 0.32 |
| 2008 | 496 | #619 | 0.26 |
| 2007 | 469 | #634 | 0.24 |
| 2006 | 552 | #539 | 0.29 |
| 2005 | 622 | #492 | 0.34 |
| 2004 | 749 | #406 | 0.41 |
| 2003 | 578 | #496 | 0.32 |
| 2002 | 584 | #483 | 0.33 |
| 2001 | 321 | #747 | 0.18 |
| 2000 | 192 | #1,076 | 0.11 |
| 1999 | 177 | #1,122 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 139 | #1,291 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 102 | #1,576 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 84 | #1,773 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 113 | #1,433 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 68 | #2,048 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 71 | #1,973 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 69 | #1,994 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 57 | #2,276 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 59 | #2,184 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 41 | #2,739 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 44 | #2,465 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 44 | #2,376 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 104 | #1,293 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 37 | #2,626 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,964 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 52 | #1,979 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 43 | #2,310 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 55 | #1,947 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 70 | #1,651 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 64 | #1,720 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 72 | #1,543 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 68 | #1,589 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 321 | #543 | 0.22 |
| 1975 | 97 | #1,197 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 75 | #1,374 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 32 | #2,383 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 30 | #2,428 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 30 | #2,519 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 20 | #3,263 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,775 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,696 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,084 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,815 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,167 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,246 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,113 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,628 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,740 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,321 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,767 | under 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,571 | under 0.01 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,968 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,096 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,756 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,716 | under 0.01 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,855 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,814 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 11 | #3,061 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 23 | #1,840 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 20 | #1,987 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 25 | #1,627 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 150 | #585 | 0.13 |
| 1917 | 43 | #1,092 | 0.04 |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,167 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 7 | #3,037 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,518 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Liberty a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Liberty has been given almost only to girls: 154 boys in 83 years of records.
Girls and boys named Liberty: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Liberty, and how old are they?
14,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 15,409 Americans ever recorded as Liberty. The median Liberty alive today is 17 years old; half are between 10 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 12,481 people named Liberty (12,257 women and girls, 224 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 12,940 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 8 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 33 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 916 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 967 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,110 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,800 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Liberty born?
The states with the most babies named Liberty are Texas, California and Ohio, with 31% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 19 | #1,340 | 0.9× |
| California | 14 | #1,625 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 10 | #931 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 10 | #1,389 | 0.8× |
| Tennessee | 9 | #793 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,153 | 0.8× |
| New York | 7 | #1,759 | 0.4× |
| Idaho | 7 | #331 | 1.4× |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,153 | 1.1× |
| Utah | 6 | #668 | 1.9× |
Where Liberty is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Liberty is most over-represented in Utah: since 1912 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Liberty with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 15,915 babies since 1880, Liberty is the most given (97% of them). In 2025 it was given to 195 of their 200 babies (98%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Liberty
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Liberty and names like it
- Compare Liberty and LibertiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sLiberty peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Liberty since 1910.
- English namesWiktionary’s origin for Liberty: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Liberty.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Liberty alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.