Livius
given name · Latin script
Meaning: männl. Vom. lateinischen Ursprungs, der auf einen römischen Geschlechtemamen ungeklärter Herkunft und Bedeutung zu rückgeht
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʎivʲiəs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Livius is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- RORomania≈1 in 82K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 234K
- ATAustria≈1 in 592K
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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 49 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 82K (inferred from the name graph)
≈390 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
männl. Vom. lateinischen Ursprungs, der auf einen römischen Geschlechtemamen ungeklärter Herkunft und Bedeutung zu rückgeht. 4· Bekannter Namensträger: Titus
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Livius 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 602K | — | Livius | 1 |
| RO Romania | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 82K | — | Livius | 19 |
| NL Netherlands | 74 | 1 in 234K | 74 | Livius | 10 |
| US United States | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 4.6M | listed | Livius | 49 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | — | Livius | 4 |
| ES Spain | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | — | Livius | 5 |
| AT Austria | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 592K | 28 | — | — |
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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)
Livius is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by:
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)
- Willem Livius van Sminiab. 1769NLDutch politician (1769-1822)
- Livius Fürstb. 1840DEGerman pediatrician
- Livius Smittb. 1840NONorwegian jurist and politician (1840-1890)
- Hector Livius Sixma van Heemstrab. 1921NLDutch politician (1921-2001)
- Livius Vargab. 1971HUHungarian musician
- Livius Penterb. 1987DEresearcher
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).
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)
Attested in 20 sources across 11 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
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 Livius mean?
- Recorded meaning: männl. Vom. lateinischen Ursprungs, der auf einen römischen Geschlechtemamen ungeklärter Herkunft und Bedeutung zu rückgeht.
- What are other forms of the name Livius?
- In the etymology graph, Livio, Liviu and Livy are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Livius?
- A machine transcription gives /ʎivʲiəs/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Livius a male or female name?
- Livius 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.
- In which country does Livius have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 388 people named Livius in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled livius.
- How common is the name Livius?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 74 people named Livius, about 1 in 234 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/liviusThe 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, “Livius”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.