Liberty

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Liberty: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Liberty: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #157 in 2003, and it stood at #638 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
33times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#157highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#260
1997	#256
1998	#250
1999	#197
2000	#186
2001	#165
2002	#196
2003	#157
2004	#181
2005	#200
2006	#213
2007	#289
2008	#311
2009	#390
2010	#401
2011	#380
2012	#370
2013	#373
2014	#386
2015	#406
2016	#444
2017	#661
2018	#527
2019	#590
2020	#631
2021	#616
2022	#503
2023	#706
2024	#1007

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #638 among girls in Scotland, #1007 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #260 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #157 among girls in England and Wales, in 2003 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1007 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Liberty appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 4,164 births with the name.

Liberty across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Liberty's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#260 (1996)	#157 (2003)	#1007 (2024)	29 of 29	4,164 (1996–2024)	308 (2003)
England and Wales · Boys	#3830 (2011)	#3830 (2011)	#5119 (2024)	2 of 14	7 (2011–2024)	4 (2011)

Liberty by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Liberty in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	679	4 of 10	170
2000sbusiest	2,178	10 of 10	218
2010s	1,018	10 of 10	102
2020s	289	5 of 10	58

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 218 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2002 and 2003, when recorded births rose by 90, from 218 to 308.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Liberty appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #157 in England and Wales in 2003.

Liberty's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1007	35	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#5119	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#706	51	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#503	80	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#616	63	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#631	60	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#590	67	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#527	80	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#661	63	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#444	99	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#406	111	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#386	115	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#373	121	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#370	129	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#380	123	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#3830	4	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#401	110	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#390	108	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#311	150	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#289	163	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#213	225	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#200	241	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#181	274	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#157	308	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#196	218	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#165	262	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#186	229	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#197	224	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#250	158	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#256	153	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#260	144	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	female	#344	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#638	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #157, first reached in 2003.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 308 births, registered in England and Wales in 2003.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1999, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Lidya · #2313, 14y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Jemima · #157, 30y
Inaya · #156, 26y
Lochlainn · #154, 25y
Aleena · #162, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Maksymilian · #157, 26y
Primrose · #157, 29y
Hattie · #156, 29y
Polly · #156, 31y

Liberty was ranked #157 in England and Wales · Girls in 2003. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Liberty and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Liberty without appearing here.

Liberty moved ahead of

Chelsea Compare
In 2017 they stood at #661 and #514 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #527 and #767.
Natasha Compare
In 2017 they stood at #661 and #593 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #527 and #680.
Gemma Compare
In 2010 they stood at #401 and #354 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #380 and #480.
Brittany Compare
In 1999 they stood at #197 and #101 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #186 and #275.

Moved ahead of Liberty

Rita Compare
In 2023 they stood at #706 and #851 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1007 and #625.
Elin Compare
In 2023 they stood at #706 and #888 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1007 and #722.
Alma Compare
In 2016 they stood at #444 and #529 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #661 and #413.
Mina Compare
In 2022 they stood at #503 and #562 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #706 and #498.

Moved the opposite way to Liberty

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Liberty went from #260 to #1007 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Liberty went from #260 to #1007 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Liberty went from #260 to #1007 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Liberty went from #260 to #1007 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Liberty

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Liberty went from #260 to #1007 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Liberty went from #260 to #1007 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Liberty went from #260 to #1007 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Liberty went from #260 to #1007 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #157 in England and Wales in 2003. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Liberty

Liberty at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Liberty across 2 official records

Liberty by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Liberty appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Liberty at a glance

Liberty across 2 official records

Liberty by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Liberty appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Liberty

Liberty and the names beside it

Liberty moved ahead of

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