Lively vs Livingston
American parents have registered 1,071 Livingstons since 1880, against 610 Livelys. But in 2025 it was Lively that was commoner, 44 babies to 12.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Lively 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 100 years in which either name was published, Livingston for 87 years and Lively for 13 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.
- 1890–2011 Livingston ahead
- 2012–2014 Lively ahead
- 2015 Livingston ahead
- 2016–2025 Lively ahead
Side by side
| Lively | Livingston | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 610 | 1,071 |
| Most in one year | 74 | 29 |
| Babies in 2025 | 44 | 12 |
| Estimated living today | 610 | 580 |
| Median age today | 4 | 30 |
| Peak year | 2024 | 1917 |
| Best rank | 2,434th girls | 1,264th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 3,459th | 12,008th |
| First recorded | 2012 | 1890 |
| Girls / boys | 610 / 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 Livelys are over 4. That is 26 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: Lively and Livingston.