Liem
Liem was given to 22 boys in 2025, #4,629 among boys’ names; 742 Americans have been recorded with it since 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Liem by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Liem?
#4,629 among boys’ names, 2025
Liem fell from #2,887 in 2015 to #4,629 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 21.4 to 12.9 per million.
49 babies in 2011, the peak
Liem peaked in 2011, when 49 boys were given it, #2,530 among boys’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 45% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #4,629 | 12.9 |
| 2024 | 16 | #5,802 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 20 | #4,991 | 11.7 |
| 2022 | 25 | #4,241 | 14.3 |
| 2021 | 22 | #4,573 | 12.6 |
| 2020 | 26 | #3,980 | 15.1 |
| 2019 | 23 | #4,414 | 12.8 |
| 2018 | 18 | #5,227 | 9.9 |
| 2017 | 34 | #3,347 | 18.4 |
| 2016 | 45 | #2,708 | 23.7 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 41 | #2,887 | 21.4 |
| 2014 | 45 | #2,689 | 23.4 |
| 2013 | 49 | #2,506 | 25.9 |
| 2012 | 40 | #2,934 | 21.1 |
| 2011 | 49 | #2,530 | 25.8 |
| 2010 | 34 | #3,279 | 17.7 |
| 2009 | 31 | #3,519 | 15.6 |
| 2008 | 25 | #4,095 | 12.3 |
| 2007 | 20 | #4,734 | 9.6 |
| 2006 | 14 | #5,977 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 16 | #5,181 | 8.0 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,803 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,306 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,348 | 5.7 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,854 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,748 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,426 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,913 | 5.3 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,866 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,741 | 4.2 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,687 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,260 | 3.1 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,976 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 8 | #6,176 | 3.9 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,506 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,931 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,091 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,258 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Liem a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Liem has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Liem: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Liem, and how old are they?
An estimated 732 Americans named Liem and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 9 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,451 people named Liem (235 women and girls, 2,216 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 611 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 362,615 babies since 1880, Liem is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 21,085 babies (<1%), again the third 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 Liem
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 Liem and names like it
- Compare Liem and LiamBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sLiem peaked in 2011.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Liem since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Liem.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Liem alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.