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Leiv

Boys' name

Inheritor, through Leifr

Leiv has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 2020. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2020, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Leiv, 2020

1 in 668,000

Leiv over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Leiv: meaning, origin, and history

Inheritor, through Leifr

Old Norse

What Leiv means

Leiv belongs to the name family reached through Leiv → Leifr. Its meaning is “inheritor”.

Origin, language, and formation

Leiv is used in Norwegian Nynorsk. Its origins include Old Norse.

Leiv comes through Old Norse Leifr.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Leifr.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Leiv between 2020 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2020; its best national rank was #13,263 in 2020.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Leiv?

Leiv had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 668,000
5 of 3,342,313 births
Among boys only
1 in 345,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,344 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Leiv sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2020 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Leiv. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Leivs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Leiv was born before 2020 — so the typical Leiv is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Leiv rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2020 (5)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#13,263
2020

Spellings of Leiv

Leiv is not the most common spelling — Luis is, with 18.8% against Leiv's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Leiv around the world

Where Leiv ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • Norway
    1880–2011
    #527
    in 2011

Popularity data from Statistics Norway. SSB data under CC BY 4.0.

Leiv by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#13,263
2020
Peak year
2020
5 that year
First recorded
2020
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Leiv

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Leiv

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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