In 2025, 332 US girls were named Livia, making it the 820th most common girls’ name of the year, up 19 places from #839 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 322 girls named Livia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #667, reached in 2014. The most girls given the name in a single year was 430, in 2018. For comparison, it was #724 in 2015 and #2,498 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Livia in 117 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1906 with 7 babies. In all, 10,236 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,830 babies named Livia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,584 US girls were named Livia; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 430. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,841 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Livia ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #238 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Olivia (568,136 babies since 1880), Livie (744 babies since 1880), Levi (216,440 babies since 1880) and Livi (766 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Livvy, Liviana and Livian are summarised on this page.
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