Girl name#1,781 of girl names
Liv
Pronounced L IH1 V (ARPABET)
- 1 syllable
- Peaked 2017
- 69 years in use
How popular is Liv?
Liv is a girls' name, and first appears in 1956. It has been given to 6,603 children — the 1,781st most common girls' name on record.
It is climbing hard: roughly twice as many births in the past decade as in the one before it. Its best single year was 2017, when 437 children were given it.
Nicknames
Liv is itself a short form of Olivia.
Characteristics
- 1 syllable
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- L IH1 V
- Stress pattern:
- 1
- Syllables:
- 1
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Liv
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Liv
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Liv?
- Liv ranks 1,781st among girls' names in US records, with 6,603 births since 1956. Over the past decade it accounts for 4,079.
- Is Liv a unisex name?
- No. Liv is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Liv most popular?
- 2017, when 437 children were given the name. It has been in use for 69 years and is still recorded as of 2024.