Liv
Liv is a girl's name that peaked in 2017, when it was the 672nd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 895th. About 6,800 Livs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 8.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Liv
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 6,901
- Estimated living today
- 6,800
- Median age today
- 8
- Peak year
- 2017
- Best rank
- 672nd
- Rank in 2025
- 895th
- First recorded
- 1956
How old the living Livs are
born that year still alive today
Of the 6,901 babies given the name since 1956, about 6,800 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 6,000 of them are children and 8 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2017 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 Livs
- Liv Tyler (born 1977)American actress
- Liv Ullmann (born 1938)Norwegian actress, director, and screenwriter
- Liv Lisa Fries (born 1990)German actress
- Liv Grete Skjelbreid Poirée (born 1974)Norwegian biathlete
- Liv Kristine (born 1976)Norwegian singer
- Liv Morgan (born 1994)American professional wrestler
- Liv Boeree (born 1984)British model and poker player
- Liv Hewson (born 1995)Australian actor
People named Liv with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Liv is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Liv is most concentrated in Utah (5.3×), Minnesota (2.6×), Florida (2.5×), Nevada (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2017
The most popular girls’ names the year Liv peaked:
Liv elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norway girls | Liv | 19,285 | 4th |
| Sweden girls | Liv | 4,445 | 50th |
| France girls | Liv | 4,085 | 120th |
| Belgium girls | Liv | 2,862 | 28th |
| Denmark girls | Liv | 2,636 | 37th |
| Switzerland girls | Liv | 1,570 | 56th |
| England and Wales girls | Liv | 459 | 1,088th |
| Scotland girls | Liv | 50 | 471st |
| Ireland girls | Liv | 49 | 544th |
| Poland girls | Liv | 28 birth registrations | 450th |
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.
Liv: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Liv | 1,210 | 0.097% | 63rd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Liv | 337 | 0.077% | 39th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Liv | 21 | 0.032% | 81st |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Liv | 2 | 0.054% | 2nd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Liv is most concentrated in Basel-Stadt, where 0.13% of children were given it – 47 of them.
Liv: rank by region
In 2025, Liv was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Liv | 16 | 148 |
| Wallonia | Liv | 96 | 26 |
In 2024, Liv was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Liv | 8 | 1 |
In 2020, Liv was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Małopolskie | Liv | 209 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Liv appears in the lists for Province of Limburg (7th), Province of Antwerp (9th), Province of Flemish Brabant (14th), Province of East Flanders (28th), Province of Luxembourg (35th), Province of Hainaut (102nd), Province of West Flanders (103rd) and Province of Liège (138th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Liv by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 228 | 87th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Liv 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Liv | 3,854 | 4,401 |
| Finland girls | Liv | 222 | 310 |
| the Netherlands boys | Liv | 11 | 13 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, 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.
Where Liv lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 238 women called Liv were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balears, Illes | Liv | 18 | 0.029 | 1,902 |
| Barcelona | Liv | 79 | 0.026 | 1,848 |
| Girona | Liv | 10 | 0.024 | 2,030 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Liv | 5 | 0.016 | 2,669 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Liv | 15 | 0.015 | 3,137 |
| Palmas, Las | Liv | 9 | 0.015 | 4,039 |
Listed in 12 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 40 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Liv against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.