Meaning not yet researched.
Liv: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 296 in 2025. Its best rank was #666 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #666 in 2020; #896 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Liv in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#896 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #666.
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Liv: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 296 girls in 2025. Peak: #666 in 2020 · most girls in one year: 437 (2017).
In 2025, 296 US girls were named Liv, making it the 896th most common girls’ name of the year, down 22 places from #874 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 309 girls named Liv in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #666, reached in 2020. The most girls given the name in a single year was 437, in 2017. For comparison, it was #720 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Liv in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1956 with 5 babies. In all, 6,901 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,443 babies named Liv.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,981 US girls were named Liv; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 437. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,430 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Liv ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #429 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Lev (3,083 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Liev, Liav and Livv 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 Dutch, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Liev (521), Liav (45), Livv (10), Leve (5), Lieve (5), Lyv (5).
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 Liv in the open dataset we use.
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 32 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 10 | #429 | #186 |
| Connecticut | 6 | #518 | — |
| Florida | 27 | #642 | #754 |
| New York | 26 | #647 | #507 |
| Washington | 10 | #655 | #581 |
| Colorado | 8 | #676 | #981 |
| California | 46 | #680 | #558 |
| Minnesota | 7 | #702 | #291 |
| Arizona | 8 | #789 | #689 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #838 | #598 |
| Tennessee | 8 | #859 | — |
| New Jersey | 8 | #898 | #903 |
| Texas | 28 | #1,023 | #1,052 |
| Missouri | 5 | #1,027 | — |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,079 | #789 |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,110 | #1,046 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,299 | #906 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,325 | #1,188 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,693 | #1,669 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 296 | #896 | — | — |
| 2024 | 309 | #874 | — | — |
| 2023 | 405 | #703 | — | — |
| 2022 | 401 | #729 | — | — |
| 2021 | 424 | #686 | — | — |
| 2020 | 432 | #666 | — | — |
| 2019 | 434 | #669 | — | — |
| 2018 | 429 | #681 | — | — |
| 2017 | 437 | #672 | — | — |
| 2016 | 414 | #697 | — | — |
| 2015 | 396 | #720 | — | — |
| 2014 | 357 | #785 | — | — |
| 2013 | 274 | #927 | — | — |
| 2012 | 237 | #1,061 | — | — |
| 2011 | 270 | #951 | — | — |
| 2010 | 195 | #1,238 | — | — |
| 2009 | 174 | #1,370 | — | — |
| 2008 | 129 | #1,727 | — | — |
| 2007 | 103 | #1,996 | — | — |
| 2006 | 84 | #2,281 | — | — |
| 2005 | 97 | #1,978 | — | — |
| 2004 | 112 | #1,731 | — | — |
| 2003 | 81 | #2,157 | — | — |
| 2002 | 44 | #3,224 | — | — |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,155 | — | — |
| 2000 | 36 | #3,627 | — | — |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,705 | — | — |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,966 | — | — |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,382 | — | — |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,132 | — | — |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,124 | — | — |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,127 | — | — |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,180 | — | — |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,973 | — | — |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,262 | — | — |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,639 | — | — |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,988 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,699 | — | — |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,051 | — | — |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,109 | — | — |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,762 | — | — |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,747 | — | — |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,729 | — | — |
| 1978 | 18 | #4,000 | — | — |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,547 | — | — |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,259 | — | — |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,460 | — | — |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,171 | — | — |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,493 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,024 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,111 | — | — |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,614 | — | — |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,480 | — | — |
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).