Liberty vs Librada
American parents have registered 15,409 Libertys since 1880, against 657 Libradas. Liberty is still ahead, with 195 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Liberty Librada
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 120 years in which either name was published, Liberty for 72 years and Librada for 48 years. The lead changed hands 15 times.
- 1898–1911 Librada ahead
- 1917–1922 Liberty ahead
- 1923–1956 Librada ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1961–2025 Liberty ahead, apart from one short spell
10 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Liberty | Librada | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 15,409 | 657 |
| Most in one year | 754 | 25 |
| Babies in 2025 | 195 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 15,000 | 210 |
| Median age today | 16 | 69 |
| Peak year | 2004 | 1927 |
| Best rank | 406th girls | 1,669th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 1,186th | unranked |
| First recorded | 1912 | 1898 |
| Girls / boys | 15,255 / 154 | 657 / 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 Libradas alive today are over 69; half the Libertys are over 16. That is 53 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.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Liberty and Librada.