Liberty
Liberty reached its high-water mark in 2004 at number 406, and has been recorded 15,409 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,186th. About 15,000 Libertys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 16.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Liberty boys named Liberty
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 15,409
- Estimated living today
- 15,000
- Median age today
- 16
- Peak year
- 2004
- Best rank
- 406th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,186th
- First recorded
- 1912
- Girls / boys
- 15,255 / 154
How old the living Libertys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 15,409 babies given the name since 1912, about 15,000 are alive — 96 in every hundred. Roughly 8,500 of them are children and 20 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2009 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Libertys
- Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858–1954)U.S. botanist
People named Liberty with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Liberty is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Liberty is most concentrated in Utah (3.9×), Nevada (2.8×), Idaho (2.6×), Oklahoma (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2004
The most popular girls’ names the year Liberty peaked:
Liberty elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Liberty | 4,193 | 157th |
| Scotland girls | Liberty | 49 | 459th |
| France girls | Liberty | 25 | 6,391st |
| England and Wales boys | Liberty | 7 | 3,830th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Liberty | 3 | 344th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Liberty among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Liberty | — | 8 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Liberty against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.