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Lively: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 44 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,450 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,450 in 2024; #3,498 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lively in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,498 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #2,450.
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Lively: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 44 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,450 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 74 (2024).
In 2025, 44 US girls were named Lively, making it the 3,498th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,048 places from #2,450 in 2024. That is 30 fewer than the 74 girls named Lively in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,450, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 74. For comparison, it was #7,466 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lively in 14 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2012 with 6 babies. In all, 610 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 382 babies named Lively.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 546 US girls were named Lively; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 74. In 2025 that was about 1 in 36,529 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
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Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
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).