Liv vs Livingston
American parents have registered 6,901 Livs since 1880, against 1,071 Livingstons. Liv is still ahead, with 296 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Liv Livingston
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 111 years in which either name was published, Livingston for 65 years and Liv for 46 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.
- 1890–1967 Livingston ahead
- 1969–1985 Liv ahead
- 1986–1992 Livingston ahead
- 1994–1995 Liv ahead
- 1996 Livingston ahead
- 1997–2025 Liv ahead
Side by side
| Liv | Livingston | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 6,901 | 1,071 |
| Most in one year | 437 | 29 |
| Babies in 2025 | 296 | 12 |
| Estimated living today | 6,800 | 580 |
| Median age today | 8 | 30 |
| Peak year | 2017 | 1917 |
| Best rank | 672nd girls | 1,264th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 895th | 12,008th |
| First recorded | 1956 | 1890 |
| Girls / boys | 6,901 / 0 | 114 / 957 |
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 Livingstons alive today are over 30; half the Livs are over 8. That is 22 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Liv and Livingston.