Livi
Feminine · “olive”
Livi is the short form that Olivia and Livia both produce, and the two are entirely different names — one from an olive tree and one from a Roman family. The clip belongs equally to both.
How old is the name Livi?
Livi first appears in US birth records in 2003 — 22 years ago. The typical Livi is a kid of about 6 — this name's wave is very recent. About 800 people named Livi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Livi most popular?
Livi peaked in 2020, reaching #2341 nationally. Today it ranks #3249, 908 places below that high. See the whole 2020 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Olivia to Livi
The story of Livi
The gens Livia was one of Rome's plebeian noble families and gave the empire its first empress. Quite separately, Shakespeare gave the name Olivia to a countess in a comedy, apparently inventing it from the Latin for olive, and it entered English from the play. Both names have been in use since, and English-speaking families clip both to Liv and Livi. The short form appears in American records under its own name in recent decades.
Meaningscholars disagree
olive, or of the Livian family
Olivia was coined by Shakespeare on the Latin oliva, an olive. Livia is a Roman family name, borne by the wife of the first emperor, whose own derivation is disputed — a connection to a word for bluish has been proposed and is not settled.
How the name formed
- Olivia
- Livi
Related forms: Livia · Livvy · Liv
Pronouncing Livi
LIV-ee
Two syllables, first stressed, with a short first vowel. Some families say LY-vee.
Nicknames for Livi
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 2003
- Most girls named
- 202075 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2341reached in 2020
- Change vs 2024
- −9.4%48 in 2025, from 53
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Livi in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Livia in Italian — related form
- Livvy in English — spelling variant
- Liv in Scandinavian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Pennsylvania.
Livis among us
people named Livi are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 33,485 born in 2025 was named Livi
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Livi
- #3249
- Livi on the 2025 chart
- #692
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Livi went to 48 girls in 2025, but Livvy, Livy and Livvi are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 274, which makes it the 692nd most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,557 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 5,866 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 33,485 for Livi itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Rhiana test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Livi's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Rhiana climbed just as high around 1977, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Rhiana's path sketches the road Livi is walking now.
Livi sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Livi is headed
Livi should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Livi beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Livi in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Two genuinely old names stand behind it, one Roman and one Shakespearean.
- Four letters and two syllables, very quick to write.
- Liv is a complete Norwegian name in its own right, so the short form has its own life.
- Olivia is enormously more common and will be assumed and written in its place.
- It reads as a nickname to most people, which may matter on a formal document.
- Livi, Livvy and Livy all appear and none is standard.
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Frequently asked
- How many Livis are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Livi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Livi?
- Livi is one of 4 recorded spellings. Livvy is the more common one — 165 births in 2025 against 48 for Livi.
- How popular is the name Livi in 2025?
- Livi ranks #3249 among US girl names in 2025, with 48 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Livi?
- About 1 in every 33,485 US girls born in 2025 was named Livi — 48 in all.
- Will my child share the name Livi with classmates?
- Livi will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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