Liam
About 359,085 American babies have been named Liam since 1947, most of them around 2024. In 2025 it ranked 1st. About 356,000 Liams are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 8.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Liam boys named Liam
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 359,085
- Estimated living today
- 356,000
- Median age today
- 8
- Peak year
- 2024
- Best rank
- 1st
- Rank in 2025
- 1st
- First recorded
- 1947
- Girls / boys
- 549 / 358,536
How old the living Liams are
born that year still alive today
Of the 359,085 babies given the name since 1947, about 356,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 312,000 of them are children and 100 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.
Where the name comes from
Origin Irish
From Irish Liam, a clipping of Uilliam, itself from English William.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Liams
- Liam Neeson (born 1952)actor from Northern Ireland
- Liam Payne (1993–2024)English singer and songwriter
- Liam Hemsworth (born 1990)Australian actor
- Liam Gallagher (born 1972)British singer
- Liam Cunningham (born 1961)Irish actor
- Liam Lawson (born 2002)New Zealand motor racing driver
- Liam Delap (born 2003)English association football player
- Liam Aiken (born 1990)American actor
People named Liam with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Liam is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Liam is most concentrated in Nevada (2.6×), Alaska (2.0×), Florida (2.0×), Arizona (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2024
The most popular boys’ names the year Liam peaked:
Liam elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Liam | 61,245 | 10th |
| France boys | Liam +4 spellings | 49,705 | 10th |
| Ireland boys | Liam | 15,061 | 15th |
| Sweden boys | Liam | 15,003 | 2nd |
| Scotland boys | Liam | 13,614 | 3rd |
| Italy boys | Liam | 11,041 | — |
| Belgium boys | Liam | 10,458 | 2nd |
| New Zealand boys | Liam | 9,568 | 2nd |
| Spain boys | Liam | 8,719 | 15th |
| Switzerland boys | Liam | 6,775 | 1st |
| Norway boys | Liam | 5,486 | 3rd |
| Denmark boys | Liam | 4,292 | 6th |
| Austria boys | Liam | 3,530 | 19th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Liam | 1,657 | 36th |
| Poland boys | Liam | 1,530 birth registrations | 72nd |
| France girls | Liam | 215 | 1,404th |
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.
Liam: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Liam | 4,192 | 0.337% | 3rd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Liam | 2,151 | 0.494% | 1st |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Liam | 421 | 0.646% | 3rd |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Liam | 11 | 0.296% | 1st |
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, Liam is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.65% of children were given it – 407 of them.
Liam: rank by region
In 2025, Liam was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium. It has come first somewhere in 2 different years.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Liam | 4 | 274 |
| Wallonia | Liam | 5 | 163 |
| Brussels | Liam | 8 | 44 |
In 2024, Liam was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canarias | Liam | 3 | 112 |
In 2024, Liam was among the 10 most common names in 2 regions of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Liam | 5 | 4 |
| Provincia Autonoma di Bolzano | Liam | 7 | 31 |
In 2025, Liam was given 2 times or more in 16 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Liam | 67 | 29 |
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Liam | 71 | 14 |
| Lubelskie | Liam | 140 | 2 |
| Lubuskie | Liam | 72 | 7 |
| Łódzkie | Liam | 97 | 10 |
| Małopolskie | Liam | 71 | 30 |
| Mazowieckie | Liam | 88 | 36 |
| Opolskie | Liam | 49 | 12 |
| Podkarpackie | Liam | 64 | 17 |
| Podlaskie | Liam | 101 | 4 |
| Pomorskie | Liam | 52 | 40 |
| Śląskie | Liam | 72 | 32 |
| Świętokrzyskie | Liam | 58 | 8 |
| Warmińsko-Mazurskie | Liam | 64 | 12 |
| Wielkopolskie | Liam | 61 | 39 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Liam | 47 | 24 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Liam appears in the lists for Province of Limburg (2nd), Province of Flemish Brabant (3rd), Province of East Flanders (4th), Province of Hainaut (4th), Province of Liège (4th), Province of Antwerp (5th), Province of West Flanders (7th), Brussels-Capital Region (8th), Province of Walloon Brabant (11th), Province of Luxembourg (14th) and Province of Namur (18th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, 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.
Liam by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 1,164 | 4th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Liam 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 boys | Liam | 5,940 | 7,739 |
| Finland boys | Liam | 1,318 | 1,607 |
| the Netherlands girls | Liam | — | 9 |
| Finland girls | Liam | — | 5 |
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 Liam lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 11,176 men called Liam were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palmas, Las | Liam | 540 | 0.928 | 148 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Liam | 489 | 0.917 | 154 |
| Barcelona | Liam | 2,231 | 0.765 | 167 |
| Tarragona | Liam | 301 | 0.687 | 193 |
| Girona | Liam | 281 | 0.675 | 187 |
| Balears, Illes | Liam | 400 | 0.642 | 181 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Liam 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.