Livia
Livia was given to 332 girls in 2025, #820 among girls’ names; 10,236 Americans have been recorded with it since 1906 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 9,580 Americans named Livia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Livia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Livia mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Livia is “a female given name from Latin.”
From Latin Līvia, feminine form of Līvius, name of a plebeian Roman gens.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Livia?
#820 among girls’ names, 2025
Livia fell from #724 in 2015 to #820 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.22 to 0.21 per 1,000.
430 babies in 2018, the peak
Livia peaked in 2018, when 430 girls were given it, #680 among girls’ names. The 332 births of 2025 are 77% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 332 | #820 | 0.21 |
| 2024 | 322 | #839 | 0.20 |
| 2023 | 334 | #826 | 0.21 |
| 2022 | 312 | #893 | 0.19 |
| 2021 | 366 | #777 | 0.22 |
| 2020 | 334 | #816 | 0.21 |
| 2019 | 368 | #762 | 0.22 |
| 2018 | 430 | #680 | 0.25 |
| 2017 | 386 | #734 | 0.22 |
| 2016 | 400 | #712 | 0.23 |
Every recorded year (117)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 393 | #724 | 0.22 |
| 2014 | 428 | #667 | 0.24 |
| 2013 | 362 | #749 | 0.21 |
| 2012 | 374 | #744 | 0.21 |
| 2011 | 365 | #756 | 0.21 |
| 2010 | 324 | #831 | 0.18 |
| 2009 | 322 | #866 | 0.18 |
| 2008 | 288 | #944 | 0.15 |
| 2007 | 250 | #1,050 | 0.13 |
| 2006 | 229 | #1,100 | 0.12 |
| 2005 | 266 | #932 | 0.14 |
| 2004 | 254 | #950 | 0.14 |
| 2003 | 230 | #1,005 | 0.13 |
| 2002 | 191 | #1,105 | 0.11 |
| 2001 | 135 | #1,408 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 126 | #1,462 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 107 | #1,576 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 92 | #1,724 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 62 | #2,213 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 40 | #2,991 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 44 | #2,756 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 44 | #2,775 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 39 | #3,015 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 30 | #3,629 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 32 | #3,402 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,789 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 28 | #3,618 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,100 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,396 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,124 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,759 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 29 | #3,026 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,203 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 36 | #2,620 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 34 | #2,696 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 29 | #3,038 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 33 | #2,702 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 37 | #2,408 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 35 | #2,491 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 33 | #2,462 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,114 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 25 | #2,883 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 25 | #2,795 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,642 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,442 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,375 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 22 | #2,881 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 27 | #2,395 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,763 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 29 | #2,226 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 23 | #2,576 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 30 | #2,227 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 18 | #3,024 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 25 | #2,442 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 31 | #2,130 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 30 | #2,129 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 31 | #2,039 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 41 | #1,691 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 40 | #1,715 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 31 | #1,952 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 20 | #2,509 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 28 | #2,004 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 27 | #1,993 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 22 | #2,239 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 19 | #2,353 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 17 | #2,497 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,295 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,776 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 20 | #2,250 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,368 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,682 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,550 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,640 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 17 | #2,156 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,213 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,501 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,508 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,116 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,613 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,658 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,090 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,790 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,920 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,675 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,374 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,979 | under 0.01 |
| 1928 | 27 | #1,568 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,973 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 23 | #1,804 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 19 | #2,079 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 23 | #1,843 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 20 | #1,994 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 21 | #1,929 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 25 | #1,748 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 18 | #2,128 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 18 | #2,032 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 17 | #2,158 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 18 | #1,964 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 25 | #1,509 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 16 | #2,010 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,515 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,682 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,918 | 0.02 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,688 | 0.01 |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,104 | 0.02 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,735 | 0.02 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,648 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Livia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Livia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 117 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Livia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Livia, and how old are they?
9,580 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 10,236 Americans ever recorded as Livia. The median Livia alive today is 14 years old; half are between 8 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 9,934 people named Livia (9,924 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,768 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 55 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 366 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 381 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 458 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,580 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,740 |
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 Livia born?
The states with the most babies named Livia are California, New York and Florida, with 37% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 40 | #770 | 0.8× |
| New York | 35 | #489 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 31 | #578 | 0.8× |
| Massachusetts | 24 | #238 | 1.8× |
| Texas | 19 | #1,341 | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 15 | #520 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 12 | #773 | 0.9× |
| Minnesota | 10 | #528 | 1.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #976 | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 9 | #834 | 0.9× |
Where Livia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Livia is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 1910 it was given 1.8 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 Livia 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 14,031 babies since 1880, Livia is the most given (73% of them). In 2025 it was given to 332 of their 675 babies (49%), 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 Livia
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 Livia and names like it
- Compare Livia and LiviBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sLivia peaked in 2018.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Livia since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Livia: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Livia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Livia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.