Liberty
loc · Latin script
Meaning: From the vocabulary word meaning ‘freedom’, chosen as a given name by parents for whom this is an important value
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Liberty is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- MOMacao
- AUAustralia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 306 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From the vocabulary word meaning ‘freedom’, chosen as a given name by parents for whom this is an important value. The word came into English via Old French from Latin Jibertas, a derivative of liber ‘free’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Liberty, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Liberty counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 12K | Liberty | 306 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 4 | Liberty | 136 |
| IN India | — | — | Liberty | 15 |
| MO Macao | — | — | Liberty | 1 |
| AU Australia | — | 3 | Liberty | 78 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Liberty is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Translation of the French Canadian surname Laliberte (see Laliberte), found predominantly in New England.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, The condition of being free from control or restrictions.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, La firme Liberty, créée par Arthur Lasenby Liberty, marchand d’étoffes anglais, a encore, à Londres, pignon sur rue. On lui doit le nom d’une étoffe, le plus souvent de coton, à petites fleurs utilisée notamment en décoration intérieure.
as a name2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
In English, English: freedom
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In Italian, art nouveau
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Arthur Lasenby Libertyb. 1843GBBritish merchant, founder of Liberty & Co. (1843–1917)
- Liberty Hyde Baileyb. 1858USU.S. botanist (1858-1954)
- Llibertat Ròdenasb. 1892ESnot in their usual nameSpanish anarcho-syndicalist and feminist activist
- Richard Libertyb. 1932USAmerican film and television actor (1932-2000)
- Liberty DeVittob. 1950USAmerican musician
- Marcus Libertyb. 1968USAmerican basketball player (born 1968)
- Liberty Rossb. 1978GBBritish model and actor
- Liberty Piggottb. 1997GBWelsh association football player (born 1997)
- Clinton Libertyb. 1998IEIrish actor
- Liberty Germanb. 2002USAmerican murder victim
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 53 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 12K | #2,139 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 224 | #2,139 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 195 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 6 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2024 | 4 | #638 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 1999 | 3 | #344 |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 1984 | 3 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2016 | 1 | #839 |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1976 | 1 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2025 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | A Concise Dictionary of First Names (Hanks & Hodges, 2001) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Liberty mean, and where does it come from?
- From the vocabulary word meaning ‘freedom’, chosen as a given name by parents for whom this is an important value. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- In which country does Liberty have the most bearers?
- Liberty is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled liberty.
What do you want to know about Liberty?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/libertyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Liberty”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.