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Liberty

#1,188 in 2025Girls' name

Free

Liberty has been given to 15,409 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #1,188 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 749 recorded.

Babies named Liberty, 2025

1 in 17,000

Liberty over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Liberty: meaning, origin, and history

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English

What Liberty means

Liberty means “free”.

Origin, language, and formation

Liberty is used in English. Its origins include English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 15,255 girls were recorded with the name Liberty between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 749 in 2004; its best national rank was #406 in 2004.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #652 in 2020 to #1,188 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #555 in 2015 to #1,188 in 2025.

In the United States, 154 boys were recorded with the name Liberty between 1916 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1976; its best national rank was #2,226 in 1918.

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 Liberty?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 17,000
195 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 8,240
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,188
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
11,785 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Liberty sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 11,785 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Liberty. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Libertys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Liberty was born before 2009 — so the typical Liberty is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
35.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
81.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
14,902
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2010s — 35.2% of all recorded uses (5,365).

Is Liberty 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
−212
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−536
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−633
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.35×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
26.0%
Peak was 2004 (749)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
10.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#406
2004

Spellings of Liberty

Liberty is the most-used spelling, taking 93.8% of the 16,271 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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.

Where Liberty is used

Across 2016–2025, Liberty was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 1,923 girls, against 1 in 3,561 across all states with data. It was least common in Connecticut (1 in 25,000).

452 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in 1,923
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 1,961
  3. 3Idaho1 in 2,000
  4. 4Tennessee1 in 2,041
  5. 5Arkansas1 in 2,128
  6. 6Indiana1 in 2,174
  7. 7Utah1 in 2,174
  8. 8Michigan1 in 2,222

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Liberty is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 26% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Liberty around the world

Where Liberty 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #1,133
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2001–2024
    #638
    in 2024
  • Northern Ireland
    1999–1999
    #344
    in 1999
  • France
    1993–2021
    #6,391
    in 2021
  • Canada
    1994–2024
    #1,854
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1976–2013
    #536
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Liberty

People whose public names include Liberty, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Liberty in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Liberty. Linked forms have their own page here.

Libertad

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Liberty by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,188
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 536
Best rank ever
#406
2004
Peak year
2004
749 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
15,255
Count in 2025
195

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,226
1918
Peak year
1976
16 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
154
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Liberty

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

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Names with a curve like Liberty

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Liberty, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Liberty

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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