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Liviana vs Livingston

American parents have registered 1,071 Livingstons since 1880, against 605 Livianas. But in 2025 it was Liviana that was commoner, 27 babies to 12.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Liviana 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 101 years in which either name was published, Livingston for 82 years and Liviana for 19 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Liviana Livingston
Total US births 6051,071
Most in one year 4929
Babies in 2025 2712
Estimated living today 600580
Median age today 830
Peak year 20191917
Best rank 3,222nd girls1,264th boys
Rank in 2025 4,878th12,008th
First recorded 20071890
Girls / boys 605 / 0114 / 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 Livianas 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: Liviana and Livingston.