Lively

At the 2020 census, 10,645 Americans bore the surname Lively — 3,317th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 28,100.

By the numbers

People: 10,645
Rank: 3,317th
How common: 1 in 28,100
Per 100,000: 3.6

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Lively described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 85.1%
Black, not Hispanic 5.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Lively

Blake Lively (born 1987)American actress
Penelope Lively (born 1933)British novelist
Eric Lively (born 1981)American actor
Robyn Lively (born 1972)American actress
Ernie Lively (1947–2021)American actor and acting coach
Jason Lively (born 1968)American actor
Dereck Lively II (born 2004)American basketball player

People named Lively with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Lively

Also a first name

Lively has been given to 610 American babies as a first name since 2012, peaking in 2024. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.