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Liviana vs Livie

American parents have registered 744 Livies since 1880, against 605 Livianas. Livie is still ahead, with 60 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Liviana against Livie, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Liviana Livie

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 24 years in which either name was published, Livie for 17 years and Liviana for 7 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Liviana Livie
Total US births 605744
Most in one year 4962
Babies in 2025 2760
Estimated living today 600730
Median age today 86
Peak year 20192024
Best rank 3,222nd girls2,749th girls
Rank in 2025 4,878th2,822nd
First recorded 20071924
Girls / boys 605 / 0744 / 0

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 Livianas alive today are over 8; half the Livies are over 6. That is 2 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Liviana Livie
France 80390
England and Wales 3110

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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