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Libbie vs Liborio

American parents have registered 2,513 Libbies since 1880, against 527 Liborios. Libbie is still ahead, with 7 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Libbie against Liborio, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Libbie Liborio

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 144 years in which either name was published, Libbie for 136 years and Liborio for 8 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Libbie Liborio
Total US births 2,513527
Most in one year 4914
Babies in 2025 7under 5
Estimated living today 1,100270
Median age today 2840
Peak year 19151932
Best rank 944th girls1,995th boys
Rank in 2025 11,932ndunranked
First recorded 18801914
Girls / boys 2,513 / 00 / 527

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Liborios alive today are over 40; half the Libbies are over 28. That is 12 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Libbie and Liborio.