Livia vs Livingston
American parents have registered 10,236 Livias since 1880, against 1,071 Livingstons. Livia is still ahead, with 332 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Livia 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 120 years in which either name was published, Livia for 105 years and Livingston for 15 years. The lead changed hands 17 times.
- 1906–1932 Livia ahead, apart from 3 short spells
- 1933–1937 Livingston ahead
- 1938–2025 Livia ahead, apart from one short spell
11 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Livia | Livingston | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 10,236 | 1,071 |
| Most in one year | 430 | 29 |
| Babies in 2025 | 332 | 12 |
| Estimated living today | 9,600 | 580 |
| Median age today | 13 | 30 |
| Peak year | 2018 | 1917 |
| Best rank | 680th girls | 1,264th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 819th | 12,008th |
| First recorded | 1906 | 1890 |
| Girls / boys | 10,236 / 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 Livias are over 13. That is 17 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: Livia and Livingston.