Liv
- #895 for girls in 2025, 296 births
- Peak · girls
- 2020 · 432 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,901since 1956
Liv over time
Rank among girls' names. Liv has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #895 | 296 |
| 2024 | #873 | 309 |
| 2023 | #702 | 405 |
| 2022 | #729 | 401 |
| 2021 | #685 | 424 |
| 2020 | #666 | 432 |
| 2019 | #668 | 434 |
| 2018 | #681 | 429 |
| 2017 | #672 | 437 |
| 2016 | #697 | 414 |
| 2015 | #717 | 396 |
| 2014 | #783 | 357 |
| 2013 | #926 | 274 |
| 2012 | #1,060 | 237 |
| 2011 | #951 | 270 |
| 2010 | #1,234 | 195 |
| 2009 | #1,366 | 174 |
| 2008 | #1,717 | 129 |
| 2007 | #1,988 | 103 |
| 2006 | #2,267 | 84 |
| 2005 | #1,969 | 97 |
| 2004 | #1,726 | 112 |
| 2003 | #2,144 | 81 |
| 2002 | #3,196 | 44 |
| 2001 | #4,107 | 30 |
| 2000 | #3,591 | 36 |
| 1999 | #6,484 | 15 |
| 1998 | #5,799 | 17 |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 |
| 1993 | — | |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 |
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| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 |
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| 1985 | #7,563 | 8 |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 |
| 1983 | #6,705 | 9 |
| 1982 | #4,025 | 19 |
| 1981 | #5,571 | 12 |
| 1980 | #5,544 | 12 |
| 1979 | #3,668 | 21 |
| 1978 | #3,924 | 18 |
| 1977 | #4,425 | 15 |
| 1976 | #4,154 | 15 |
| 1975 | #3,404 | 20 |
| 1974 | #3,110 | 22 |
| 1973 | #4,362 | 13 |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 |
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| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 |
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| 1958 | #6,103 | 5 |
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| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Liv! It came in at #5,952, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1956–1972, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Liv is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Utah#408 · 1 in 1,708
- Connecticut#459 · 1 in 1,917
- Washington#617 · 1 in 2,886
- New York#628 · 1 in 3,013
- Colorado#634 · 1 in 2,916
Best ever in a state: #177 in District of Columbia, 2011.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Utah | #408 | 10 | 1 in 1,708 |
| Connecticut | #459 | 6 | 1 in 1,917 |
| Washington | #617 | 10 | 1 in 2,886 |
| New York | #628 | 26 | 1 in 3,013 |
| Colorado | #634 | 8 | 1 in 2,916 |
| Florida | #634 | 27 | 1 in 3,213 |
| Minnesota | #659 | 7 | 1 in 3,068 |
| California | #675 | 46 | 1 in 3,516 |
| Arizona | #748 | 8 | 1 in 3,527 |
| Massachusetts | #761 | 6 | 1 in 4,005 |
| Tennessee | #813 | 8 | 1 in 4,009 |
| New Jersey | #846 | 8 | 1 in 4,438 |
| Missouri | #926 | 5 | 1 in 4,860 |
| Texas | #1,006 | 28 | 1 in 5,734 |
| Illinois | #1,014 | 8 | 1 in 5,541 |
| North Carolina | #1,057 | 8 | 1 in 5,810 |
| Virginia | #1,180 | 5 | 1 in 6,748 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,231 | 6 | 1 in 7,781 |
| Georgia | #1,533 | 5 | 1 in 9,042 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Liv
- 229 spots since 2020 (#666 → #895)
- Biggest jump: 283 spots in 2011
- Biggest drop: 171 spots in 2024
- Debuted 1956
- Peaked 2020 at #666 (432 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 14 yrs · run 2013–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,742 girls born in 2020 were named Liv (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,430 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 49.9% of all girls named Liv (3,443) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1950s | 10 | #5,952 (1956) | #6,028 |
| 1960s | 5 | #7,471 (1969) | #7,471 |
| 1970s | 129 | #3,110 (1974) | #4,417 |
| 1980s | 73 | #4,025 (1982) | #6,769 |
| 1990s | 84 | #5,799 (1998) | #9,218 |
| 2000s | 890 | #1,366 (2009) | #2,407 |
| 2010s | 3,443 | #668 (2019) | #839 |
| 2020s | 2,267 | #666 (2020) | #758 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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