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Livia

#820 in 2025Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Livia has been given to 10,236 babies in the U.S. since 1906. In 2025 it ranked #820 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 430 recorded.

Babies named Livia, 2025

1 in 9,990

Livia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Livia: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Latin

What Livia means

Livia has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Livia

A separate documented entry treats Livia as a feminine form of Livius. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

A separate documented entry treats Livia as a short form of Olivia. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Latin Līvia, feminine form of Līvius, name of a plebeian Roman gens.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Livia (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Livia is used in English, German and Italian. Its origins include Latin.

Livia comes through Latin Līvia.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Līvius.

Pronunciation and spelling

In German, Livia is pronounced [ˈliːvɪ̯a].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,236 girls were recorded with the name Livia between 1906 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 430 in 2018; its best national rank was #667 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #816 in 2020 to #820 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #724 in 2015 to #820 in 2025.

How common is Livia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 9,990
332 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 4,840
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#820
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,923 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Livia 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 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,923 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Livia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Livias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Livia was born before 2012 — so the typical Livia is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
78.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
9,672
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 37.4% of all recorded uses (3,830).

Is Livia 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
+19
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−4
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−96
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.84×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
77.2%
Peak was 2018 (430)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
8.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#667
2014

Spellings of Livia

Livia is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 34.5% against Livia's 0.24%.

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 Livia is used

Across 2016–2025, Livia was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 1,282 girls, against 1 in 4,080 across all states with data. It was least common in Arkansas (1 in 16,667).

678 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 1,282
  2. 2Connecticut1 in 1,754
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 1,887
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 2,564
  5. 5New York1 in 2,632
  6. 6Utah1 in 2,941
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 3,125
  8. 8Illinois1 in 3,226

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, Livia is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 65% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Livia around the world

Where Livia 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
    #542
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2005–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2008–2022
    #418
    in 2022
  • Ireland
    2004–2025
    #608
    in 2025
  • France
    1904–2025
    #50
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #212
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #66
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1955–2013
    #403
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA 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.

Notable people named Livia

People whose public names include Livia, 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.

Livia in other languages

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

LivaLivieLivyaLivijaLiviyaLivianaLiwiaLivinaLiviyah

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

Livia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#820
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4
Best rank ever
#667
2014
Peak year
2018
430 that year
First recorded
1906
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10,236
Count in 2025
332

Names similar to Livia

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

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Names with a curve like Livia

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

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Sibling names for Livia

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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