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Liva

#14,215 in 2025Girls' name

Protection, through Liv

Liva has been given to 39 babies in the U.S. since 2009. In 2025 it ranked #14,215 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Liva, 2025

1 in 553,000

Liva over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Liva: meaning, origin, and history

Protection, through Liv

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Liva means

Liva belongs to the name family reached through Liva → Liv. Its meaning is “protection”.

Origin, language, and formation

Liva is used in Danish, Faroese and Slovak.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Liv, Olivia, Lívia and Līva.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Slovak, Liva is pronounced /liva/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 39 girls were recorded with the name Liva between 2009 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2017; its best national rank was #12,292 in 2017.

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 Liva?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,215
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Liva 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Liva. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Livas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Liva was born before 2017 — so the typical Liva is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
59.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
39
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 59.0% of all recorded uses (23).

Is Liva 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
+2,475
Places climbed
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
75.0%
Peak was 2017 (8)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
39.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#12,292
2017

Spellings of Liva

Liva is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 19.1% against Liva'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.

Liva around the world

Where Liva 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
    2009–2025
    #3,035
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2003–2011
    #937
    in 2011
  • France
    1972–2025
    #2,149
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #105
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2023–2023
    #3,197
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    2008–2008
    #796
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Liva by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,215
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#12,292
2017
Peak year
2017
8 that year
First recorded
2009
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
39
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Liva

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

LivviLivyaLivvLivyLivanaKrivaLiviTivaNeivaLivianShrivaLiveeDaivaLiviahLivvieLivieLivvyKeivaEivaNivaChavivaAlivaKaivaLivinia

Sibling names for Liva

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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