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Livy

#2,979 in 2025Girls' name

Olive; olive branch, through Olivia

Livy has been given to 550 babies in the U.S. since 2004. In 2025 it ranked #2,979 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 56 recorded.

Babies named Livy, 2025

1 in 59,200

Livy over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Livy: meaning, origin, and history

Olive; olive branch, through Olivia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Livy means

Livy belongs to the name family reached through Livy → Olivia. Its meaning is “olive; olive branch”.

Origin, language, and formation

Livy is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Olivia.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Livy is pronounced /ˈlɪvi/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 550 girls were recorded with the name Livy between 2004 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 56 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,963 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,834 in 2020 to #2,979 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,819 in 2015 to #2,979 in 2025.

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.

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How common is Livy?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 59,200
56 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 28,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,979
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
41,035 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Livy 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 41,035 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Livy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Livys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Livy was born before 2019 — so the typical Livy is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
47.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
550
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 47.8% of all recorded uses (263).

Is Livy 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
−16
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,855
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+840
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.40×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2024 (56)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,963
2024

Spellings of Livy

Livy is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 49.2% against Livy's 0.03%.

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 Livy is used

Across 1910–2025, Livy was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 742,592 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Louisiana1 in —
  3. 3Minnesota1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —

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. Livy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Livy around the world

Where Livy 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
    2006–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    1993–2025
    #1,399
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2017–2023
    #2,973
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Livy by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,979
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,855
Best rank ever
#2,963
2024
Peak year
2024
56 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
550
Count in 2025
56

Names similar to Livy

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

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Sibling names for Livy

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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