Livia
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From Latin Livius/Livia, probably linked to Latin lividus, 'bluish'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Livia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 784(measured from records)
- RORomania≈1 in 1.6K
- ITItaly≈1 in 5.9K
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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 316 (measured from records)
- 1 in 784 (inferred from the name graph)
270,053 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From Latin Livius/Livia, probably linked to Latin lividus, 'bluish'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Livia 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #223 | 270,053 | 1 in 784 | 270K | Livia | 199 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 15K | listed | Livia | 118 |
| RO Romania | #408 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Livia | 35 |
| IT Italy | #725 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | 398 | Livia | 146 |
| US United States | — | 9,934 | 1 in 33K | 9.9K | Livia | 316 |
| SE Sweden | — | 5,562 | 1 in 1.8K | 5.6K | Livia | 28 |
| FI Finland | — | 2,291 | 1 in 2.4K | 2.5K | — | 5 |
| MD Moldova | — | 2,123 | 1 in 1.6K | 2.1K | — | 9 |
270,053 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); e-services.md — living population register. 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)
Livia 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 Swedish, Livia är ett romerskt namn, en feminin form av mansnamnet Livius med oklar betydelse. Idag ses det kanske snarare som en kortform av → Olivia. Det har varit ett av de mer populära namnen det senaste årtiondet. Kända namnbärare är föreläsaren Livia Fränkel (1927–2025) och skådespelerskan Livia Millhagen (f. 1973). I den finlandssvenska almanackan 29 maj.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In English, wife of Roman emperor Augustus;
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In French, Diminutif d’Olivia; origine latine, « olive ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
De color verde oliva
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Blu d’invidia
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
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)
- Livia della Rovereb. 1585ITItalian noble (1585-1641)
- Livia Rothkirchenb. 1922DECzech historian (1922-2013)
- Livia Ana Tătarub. 1927ROGerman linguist (1927–2018)
- Livia Giampalmob. 1941ITItalian actress, voice actress, film director and screenwriter
- Livia Klausováb. 1943CZCzech first wife of the Czech Republic, ambassador and economist
- Livia Turcob. 1955ITItalian politician
- Livia Millhagenb. 1973SESwedish actress
- Livia S. Reinhardb. 1974CHSwiss actress
- Livia Britob. 1986CUCuban actress
- Ionela-Livia Cozmiucb. 1995RORomanian rower
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 112 sources across 55 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 270K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 269K | #115 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 136K | #358 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 49K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 9.9K | #2,477 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 5.6K | #574 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 3.2K | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 2.5K | #485 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 2.3K | — |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 2.1K | #261 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.3K | #115 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 398 | #81 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Livia mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin Livius/Livia, probably linked to Latin lividus, 'bluish'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- In which country does Livia have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 270 thousand people named Livia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled livia.
- Where is Livia most common?
- Livia is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 784 people carrying it.
- Is Livia a male or female name?
- Livia is a female 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 are other forms of the name Livia?
- In the etymology graph, Ollie, Vivi and Liv are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Livia?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 270,053 people named Livia in 2022, about 1 in 784 residents.
- How common is Livia compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Livia is the 223rd most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Livia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/liviaThe 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, “Livia” — the 223rd most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.