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Livi vs Liviana

American parents have registered 766 Livis since 1880, against 605 Livianas. Livi is still ahead, with 48 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Livi against Liviana, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Livi Liviana

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, Livi for 16 years and Liviana for 6 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Livi Liviana
Total US births 766605
Most in one year 7549
Babies in 2025 4827
Estimated living today 760600
Median age today 68
Peak year 20202019
Best rank 2,341st girls3,222nd girls
Rank in 2025 3,249th4,878th
First recorded 20032007
Girls / boys 766 / 0605 / 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 Livis are over 6. That is 2 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 Livi Liviana
England and Wales 1153
France 580

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: Livi and Liviana.