Livia

What Livia means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Livia yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Down from #724 in 2015 to #819 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Livia?

US: Falling: down from #724 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #345 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2018, when 430 girls got the name (#680 that year). First in the US records in 1906.

How common

• About 1 in 4,841 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 3,470 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 5,964 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MA (1.0 per 1,000 girls), CT (0.61 per 1,000 girls), MN (0.47 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Livia is #819 in the US and #542 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Livia were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Lluvia88 US
• Livie60 US · 4 E&W
• Lovie19 US
• Lyvia14 US
• Lavie8 US
• Levie6 US
• Livvie0 US · 5 E&W
• Lavia0 US · 3 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Livia

Girls

• Lilianna#890Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1980, with 6 babies
• Olivia#1“olive; olive branch”^*
• Lilliana#445Editor’s note Down from #270 in 2015 to #445 in 2025 in the US
• Arabella#213Editor’s note Steady in the US: #194 in 2015 and #213 in 2025
• Lillian#57possibly “lily”^*
• Harmony#276From the word “harmony”^*

For a brother

• Julian#25“Roman personal name”^*
• Sebastian#16“august, venerable, exalted”^*
• Lukas#288“a man from Lucania”^*
• Maximilian#590German, meaning “the greatest”^*
• Blaze#781Editor’s note Down from #707 in 2015 to #781 in 2025 in the US
• Magnus#763“great”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Latin, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Livia’s. Rank is US 2025.