Liberty

Where Liberty comes from

From liberty.
— Wiktionary's entry for Liberty
  • English
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1858
    Liberty Hyde Bailey born
    U.S. botanist
  2. 1912
    First appearance
    #2,360 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1917
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  4. 1978
    Liberty Ross born
    British model and actor
  5. 2004
    Peak, #406
    749 babies named Liberty — more than any year before or since.
  6. 2023
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #883.
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name.
  • A female given name from English.
  • A male given name from English.
Namesakes
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey · U.S. botanist, 1858–1954
  • Liberty Ross · British model and actor, born 1978
  • Liberty DeVitto · American musician, born 1950

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.