Liv — #874 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Liv

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,603 babies named Liv between 1956 and 2024, spanning 69 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Liv currently holds the #874 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 437 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Liv performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 3,443 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Liv shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,111 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Liv in 38 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Liv in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 6,603 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.