Liva

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Liva: Recorded since 1974, its highest recorded position is #107, reached in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
46times a registrar ranked it
52years from first to last
#107highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2009–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2009	#5556
2012	#4838
2016	#4096
2018	#4684
2019	#4001
2020	#5493
2023	#3598
2024	#5891

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 Norway in 36 of the 52 years from 1974 to 2025.

In 2024: #120 among girls in Norway, #5891 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1974–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1974
First recorded at #612 among girls in Norway in 1974 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1974–2025
Highest recorded position: #107 among girls in Norway, in 2025 (recorded 1974–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #107 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Liva appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 36 years beginning in 1974, and has registered 692 births with the name.

Liva across 3 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.

Liva'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
Norway · Girls	#612 (1974)	#107 (2025)	#107 (2025)	36 of 52	692 (1974–2025)	53 (2025)
England and Wales · Girls	#5556 (2009)	#3598 (2023)	#5891 (2024)	8 of 16	33 (2009–2024)	6 (2023)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#655 (2003)	#655 (2003)	#937 (2011)	2 of 9	6 (2003–2011)	3 (2003)

Liva by decade in Norway · 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 Liva in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1970s	4	1 of 10	4
1980s	9	2 of 10	5
1990s	40	7 of 10	6
2000s	148	10 of 10	15
2010s	245	10 of 10	25
2020sbusiest	246	6 of 10	41

Across Norway · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 41 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Liva 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 1974 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #107 in Norway in 2025.

Liva'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	#5891	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#3598	6	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#5493	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4001	5	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4096	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4838	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#5556	3	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#107	53	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#120	43	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#128	41	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#130	39	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#135	35	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#140	35	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#126	42	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#202	25	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#196	27	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#247	22	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#251	21	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#242	23	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#293	18	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#269	19	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#218	25	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#250	23	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#253	21	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#317	15	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#288	17	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#254	19	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#267	18	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#365	11	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#237	21	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#316	13	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#502	6	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#471	7	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#375	10	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#618	4	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#473	7	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#531	6	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#663	4	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#658	4	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#616	5	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#662	4	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#610	5	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#612	4	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#937	3	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#655	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1974 and 2025, ranked in 36 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #107, first reached in 2025.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 53 births, registered in Norway in 2025.

Its record falls into 5 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 9 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2003, and 35 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.

Lissie · #3514, 10y
Liv · #3, 81y
Live · #23, 80y
Livia · #177, 32y

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.

Kerri · #104, 39y
Lilja · #104, 31y
Katy · #111, 41y
Cuan · #102, 31y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Muhammed · #108, 46y
Wilma · #109, 29y
Kerri · #104, 39y
Lilja · #104, 31y

Liva was ranked #107 in Norway · Girls in 2025. 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.

Liva 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 Liva without appearing here.

Liva moved ahead of

Kristin Compare
In 2022 they stood at #5493 and #5493 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #3598 and #5687.
Tracey Compare
In 2022 they stood at #5493 and #4535 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #3598 and #5687.
Tove Compare
In 2002 they stood at #502 and #405 in Norway · Girls; by 2003 that had become #237 and #618.
Grethe Compare
In 2002 they stood at #502 and #492 in Norway · Girls; by 2003 that had become #237 and #594.

Moved ahead of Liva

Meabh Compare
In 2015 they stood at #4838 and #5876 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #4096 and #2233.
Amalie Compare
In 1986 they stood at #610 and #631 in Norway · Girls; by 1987 that had become #662 and #383.
Ella Compare
In 1989 they stood at #610 and #643 in Norway · Girls; by 1990 that had become #616 and #387.
Olivia Compare
In 1990 they stood at #662 and #672 in Norway · Girls; by 1991 that had become #658 and #520.

Moved the opposite way to Liva

Anita Compare
Between 1974 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Liva went from #612 to #107 while Anita went from #10 to #459.
Anne Compare
Between 1974 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Liva went from #612 to #107 while Anne went from #1 to #159.
Aud Compare
Between 1974 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Liva went from #612 to #107 while Aud went from #156 to #427.
Bjørg Compare
Between 1974 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Liva went from #612 to #107 while Bjørg went from #142 to #369.

Moved the same way as Liva

Alma Compare
Between 1974 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Liva went from #612 to #107 and Alma from #366 to #8.
Andrea Compare
Between 1974 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Liva went from #612 to #107 and Andrea from #220 to #98.
Anna Compare
Between 1974 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Liva went from #612 to #107 and Anna from #47 to #23.
Annie Compare
Between 1974 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Liva went from #612 to #107 and Annie from #444 to #214.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
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 1974 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #107 in Norway in 2025. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Liva

Liva at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Liva across 3 official records

Liva by decade in Norway · Girls

Liva appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1970s

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Liva moved ahead of

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Liva at a glance

Liva across 3 official records

Liva by decade in Norway · Girls

Liva appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Liva

Liva and the names beside it

Liva moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Liva

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