Livy

Where Livy comes from

The dictionaries list Livy as a given name — a diminutive of the female given name Olivia — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 2004
    First appearance
    #14,179 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2024
    Peak, #2,930
    56 babies named Livy — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Olivia.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Livy hasn't yet.

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.