Livingston
#13,145 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Livingston has been given to 1,071 babies in the U.S. since 1890. In 2025 it ranked #13,145 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1917, with 29 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 89% boys, 11% girls all-time.
Babies named Livingston, 2025
1 in 663,000
Livingston over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Livingston over time
In 2025, Livingston went to 58% girls and 42% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Livingston?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #13,145
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Livingston sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Livingston. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Livingstons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Livingston was born before 1948 — so the typical Livingston is around 77 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 16.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 15.7%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 454
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 16.1% of all recorded uses (154).
Is Livingston 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
- −2,642
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,711
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −5,795
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.45×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 17.2%
- Peak was 1917 (29)
- Years since peak
- 108
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.0% average annual change
Where Livingston is used
Across 1910–2025, Livingston was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,220,640 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Livingston has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Livingston by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Livingston
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Livingston
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.