Liver
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: IBGE, 2022
/libeɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Liver is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Peru than in any other country.
- UYUruguay1 in 109K(measured from records)
- PEPeru≈1 in 192K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 300K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Peru (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 109K (inferred from the name graph)
≈170 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Liver counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
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: INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)Liver 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.
In English, nyene
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
In enm, alternative form of lyvere (“liver”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, present of liva
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, painter
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, empattement, entrave
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 39 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 32 | #78,870 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 31 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 28 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 24 | #45,270 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 17 | #6,352 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 3 | — |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 1993 | 1 | — |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 1979 | 1 | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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
- Where does the name Liver come from?
- A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Liver?
- A machine transcription gives /libeɾ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Liver a male or female name?
- Liver is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Liver mean?
- Recorded meaning: A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile.
- In which country does Liver have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 166 people named Liver in Peru, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled liver.
- Where is Liver most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Liver is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 109 thousand people — even though Peru holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Liver?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 39 people named Liver in 2022, about 1 in 5.4 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/liverThe 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, “Liver”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.