Meaning not yet researched.
Libby: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 202 in 2025. Its best rank was #605 in 1934.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #605 in 1934; #1,146 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Libby in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,146 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1934, at #605.
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Libby: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 202 girls in 2025. Peak: #605 in 1934 · most girls in one year: 355 (2009).
In 2025, 202 US girls were named Libby, making it the 1,146th most common girls’ name of the year, down 24 places from #1,122 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 216 girls named Libby in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #605, reached in 1934. The most girls given the name in a single year was 355, in 2009. For comparison, it was #1,000 in 2015 and #795 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Libby in 143 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 5 babies. In all, 17,971 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,863 babies named Libby.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,288 US girls were named Libby; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 258. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,957 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Libby ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #298 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Libbie, Libbi and Libi are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Hebrew. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Libbie (2,513), Libbi (237), Libi (198), Leiby (171), Libbey (114), Libia (73), Libya (14), Liby (10).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Libby in the open dataset we use.
Libby is listed as a nickname for Elizabeth.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 38 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 57 | #298 | #585 |
| Arkansas | 6 | #531 | — |
| New Jersey | 9 | #813 | — |
| South Carolina | 5 | #862 | — |
| Georgia | 9 | #1,037 | #939 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,167 | #1,041 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,228 | #749 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,322 | #1,185 |
| Texas | 18 | #1,385 | #1,296 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,529 | #1,236 |
| California | 15 | #1,538 | #2,111 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,604 | #723 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,798 | #1,432 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 202 | #1,146 | — | — |
| 2024 | 216 | #1,122 | — | — |
| 2023 | 225 | #1,096 | — | — |
| 2022 | 253 | #1,023 | — | — |
| 2021 | 206 | #1,186 | — | — |
| 2020 | 205 | #1,153 | — | — |
| 2019 | 258 | #1,001 | — | — |
| 2018 | 232 | #1,086 | — | — |
| 2017 | 239 | #1,069 | — | — |
| 2016 | 252 | #1,046 | — | — |
| 2015 | 270 | #1,000 | — | — |
| 2014 | 306 | #890 | — | — |
| 2013 | 290 | #888 | — | — |
| 2012 | 282 | #916 | — | — |
| 2011 | 279 | #928 | — | — |
| 2010 | 346 | #793 | — | — |
| 2009 | 355 | #798 | — | — |
| 2008 | 316 | #882 | — | — |
| 2007 | 323 | #866 | — | — |
| 2006 | 347 | #789 | — | — |
| 2005 | 333 | #781 | — | — |
| 2004 | 301 | #826 | — | — |
| 2003 | 256 | #922 | — | — |
| 2002 | 226 | #980 | — | — |
| 2001 | 212 | #1,013 | — | — |
| 2000 | 194 | #1,068 | — | — |
| 1999 | 150 | #1,250 | — | — |
| 1998 | 162 | #1,165 | — | — |
| 1997 | 147 | #1,223 | — | — |
| 1996 | 138 | #1,265 | — | — |
| 1995 | 141 | #1,221 | — | — |
| 1994 | 110 | #1,448 | — | — |
| 1993 | 89 | #1,687 | — | — |
| 1992 | 86 | #1,736 | — | — |
| 1991 | 88 | #1,686 | — | — |
| 1990 | 103 | #1,507 | — | — |
| 1989 | 68 | #1,918 | — | — |
| 1988 | 70 | #1,796 | — | — |
| 1987 | 96 | #1,399 | — | — |
| 1986 | 88 | #1,456 | — | — |
| 1985 | 92 | #1,397 | — | — |
| 1984 | 73 | #1,559 | — | — |
| 1983 | 93 | #1,306 | — | — |
| 1982 | 94 | #1,331 | — | — |
| 1981 | 98 | #1,299 | — | — |
| 1980 | 115 | #1,170 | — | — |
| 1979 | 84 | #1,450 | — | — |
| 1978 | 77 | #1,480 | — | — |
| 1977 | 98 | #1,237 | — | — |
| 1976 | 128 | #995 | — | — |
| 1975 | 119 | #1,016 | — | — |
| 1974 | 120 | #1,005 | — | — |
| 1973 | 139 | #902 | — | — |
| 1972 | 124 | #976 | — | — |
| 1971 | 112 | #1,079 | — | — |
| 1970 | 119 | #1,037 | — | — |
| 1969 | 155 | #831 | — | — |
| 1968 | 171 | #760 | — | — |
| 1967 | 204 | #678 | — | — |
| 1966 | 169 | #757 | — | — |
| 1965 | 181 | #743 | — | — |
| 1964 | 203 | #731 | — | — |
| 1963 | 221 | #675 | — | — |
| 1962 | 245 | #648 | — | — |
| 1961 | 257 | #634 | — | — |
| 1960 | 264 | #618 | — | — |
| 1959 | 239 | #649 | — | — |
| 1958 | 245 | #627 | — | — |
| 1957 | 209 | #688 | — | — |
| 1956 | 165 | #759 | — | — |
| 1955 | 134 | #840 | 5 | #4,166 |
| 1954 | 154 | #746 | — | — |
| 1953 | 148 | #750 | — | — |
| 1952 | 137 | #762 | — | — |
| 1951 | 119 | #822 | — | — |
| 1950 | 119 | #795 | — | — |
| 1949 | 141 | #716 | — | — |
| 1948 | 138 | #718 | — | — |
| 1947 | 155 | #675 | — | — |
| 1946 | 137 | #680 | — | — |
| 1945 | 106 | #724 | — | — |
| 1944 | 114 | #703 | — | — |
| 1943 | 100 | #780 | — | — |
| 1942 | 98 | #764 | — | — |
| 1941 | 101 | #700 | — | — |
| 1940 | 78 | #806 | — | — |
| 1939 | 93 | #707 | — | — |
| 1938 | 112 | #647 | — | — |
| 1937 | 97 | #696 | — | — |
| 1936 | 97 | #674 | — | — |
| 1935 | 96 | #683 | — | — |
| 1934 | 119 | #605 | — | — |
| 1933 | 113 | #610 | — | — |
| 1932 | 90 | #717 | — | — |
| 1931 | 69 | #826 | — | — |
| 1930 | 65 | #903 | — | — |
| 1929 | 76 | #811 | — | — |
| 1928 | 66 | #910 | — | — |
| 1927 | 94 | #738 | — | — |
| 1926 | 69 | #897 | — | — |
| 1925 | 59 | #971 | — | — |
| 1924 | 76 | #862 | — | — |
| 1923 | 80 | #822 | — | — |
| 1922 | 65 | #913 | — | — |
| 1921 | 104 | #720 | — | — |
| 1920 | 83 | #794 | — | — |
| 1919 | 114 | #653 | — | — |
| 1918 | 125 | #638 | — | — |
| 1917 | 107 | #660 | — | — |
| 1916 | 106 | #664 | — | — |
| 1915 | 108 | #634 | — | — |
| 1914 | 61 | #739 | — | — |
| 1913 | 53 | #717 | — | — |
| 1912 | 56 | #670 | — | — |
| 1911 | 44 | #657 | — | — |
| 1910 | 35 | #716 | — | — |
| 1909 | 31 | #726 | — | — |
| 1908 | 22 | #843 | — | — |
| 1907 | 23 | #782 | — | — |
| 1906 | 21 | #811 | — | — |
| 1905 | 24 | #752 | — | — |
| 1904 | 19 | #845 | — | — |
| 1903 | 15 | #915 | — | — |
| 1902 | 11 | #1,103 | — | — |
| 1901 | 17 | #812 | — | — |
| 1900 | 22 | #791 | — | — |
| 1899 | 17 | #805 | — | — |
| 1898 | 19 | #782 | — | — |
| 1897 | 10 | #1,074 | — | — |
| 1896 | 22 | #676 | — | — |
| 1895 | 14 | #878 | — | — |
| 1894 | 12 | #925 | — | — |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,549 | — | — |
| 1892 | 10 | #990 | — | — |
| 1891 | 9 | #978 | — | — |
| 1890 | 10 | #907 | — | — |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,394 | — | — |
| 1888 | 8 | #999 | — | — |
| 1887 | 8 | #906 | — | — |
| 1886 | 8 | #866 | — | — |
| 1885 | 10 | #720 | — | — |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,097 | — | — |
| 1881 | 5 | #895 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).