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Liviana vs Livvy

American parents have registered 764 Livvys since 1880, against 605 Livianas. Livvy is still ahead, with 165 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Liviana against Livvy, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Liviana Livvy

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 22 years in which either name was published, Liviana for 13 years and Livvy for 9 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Liviana Livvy
Total US births 605764
Most in one year 49165
Babies in 2025 27165
Estimated living today 600760
Median age today 83
Peak year 20192025
Best rank 3,222nd girls1,341st girls
Rank in 2025 4,878th1,341st
First recorded 20072003
Girls / boys 605 / 0764 / 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 Livvys are over 3. That is 5 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 Livvy
England and Wales 3381

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 Livvy.