Livia
Livia reached its high-water mark in 2018 at number 680, and has been recorded 10,236 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 819th. About 9,600 Livias are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 13.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Livia
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 10,236
- Estimated living today
- 9,600
- Median age today
- 13
- Peak year
- 2018
- Best rank
- 680th
- Rank in 2025
- 819th
- First recorded
- 1906
How old the living Livias are
born that year still alive today
Of the 10,236 babies given the name since 1906, about 9,600 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 6,400 of them are children and 340 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2012 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.
Where the name comes from
Origin Latin
From Latin Līvia, feminine form of Līvius, name of a plebeian Roman gens.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Livias
- Lívia Járóka (born 1974)Hungarian politician
- Livia Brito (born 1986)Cuban actress
- Ionela-Livia Cozmiuc (born 1995)Romanian rower
- Agostina Livia Picapiedra (1864–1894)Italian saint
- Livia Peng (born 2002)Swiss association football player
- Lívia Gyarmathy (1932–2022)Film director, Screenwriter
- Lívia Rév (1916–2018)Hungarian classical concert pianist
- Livia Millhagen (born 1973)Swedish actress
People named Livia with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Livia is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Livia is most concentrated in Minnesota (2.3×), Utah (2.2×), Massachusetts (2.2×), Colorado (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2018
The most popular girls’ names the year Livia peaked:
Livia elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Livia +2 spellings | 13,050 | 62nd |
| Italy girls | Livia | 6,554 | — |
| Switzerland girls | Livia | 4,471 | 23rd |
| Sweden girls | Livia | 3,383 | 36th |
| England and Wales girls | Livia | 2,193 | 340th |
| Belgium girls | Livia | 1,994 | 21st |
| Poland girls | Livia | 1,554 birth registrations | 136th |
| Austria girls | Livia | 1,373 | 28th |
| Norway girls | Livia | 311 | 171st |
| Ireland girls | Livia +1 spelling | 144 | 316th |
| Scotland girls | Livia | 119 | 286th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Livia | 19 | 284th |
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.
Livia: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Livia | 3,928 | 0.316% | 13th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Livia | 488 | 0.112% | 46th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Livia | 40 | 0.061% | 47th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Livia | 15 | 0.403% | 4th |
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, Livia is most concentrated in Appenzell Innerrhoden, where 0.85% of children were given it – 33 of them.
Livia: rank by region
In 2025, Livia was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Livia | 26 | 123 |
| Wallonia | Livia | 24 | 90 |
| Brussels | Livia | 93 | 11 |
In 2025, Livia was given 2 times or more in 15 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Livia | 138 | 6 |
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Livia | 167 | 2 |
| Lubelskie | Livia | 111 | 4 |
| Lubuskie | Livia | 81 | 6 |
| Łódzkie | Livia | 128 | 5 |
| Małopolskie | Livia | 135 | 9 |
| Mazowieckie | Livia | 201 | 6 |
| Opolskie | Livia | 123 | 2 |
| Podkarpackie | Livia | 110 | 6 |
| Podlaskie | Livia | 122 | 2 |
| Pomorskie | Livia | 116 | 8 |
| Śląskie | Livia | 106 | 14 |
| Warmińsko-Mazurskie | Livia | 109 | 3 |
| Wielkopolskie | Livia | 130 | 9 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Livia | 81 | 9 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Livia appears in the lists for Province of Luxembourg (14th), Province of Liège (15th), Province of East Flanders (20th), Province of Limburg (22nd), Province of Flemish Brabant (22nd), Province of Hainaut (22nd), Province of West Flanders (36th), Province of Namur (36th), Province of Antwerp (42nd) and Brussels-Capital Region (93rd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, 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.
Livia by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 240 | 61st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Livia 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 | Livia | 1,605 | 2,423 |
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.
Where Livia lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,491 women called Livia 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castellón/Castelló | Livia | 44 | 0.139 | 608 |
| Guadalajara | Livia | 17 | 0.121 | 641 |
| Segovia | Livia | 8 | 0.101 | 766 |
| Toledo | Livia | 37 | 0.099 | 758 |
| Madrid | Livia | 353 | 0.095 | 716 |
| Badajoz | Livia | 31 | 0.092 | 633 |
Listed in 46 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 6 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
Livia 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.