Lïv
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lïv is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country: 20,317 people, counted by SSB PxWebApi in 2025. Recorded meaning: From Old Norse líf, from Proto-Germanic *lībą.
- NONorway1 in 269(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 949
- DKDenmark1 in 1.1K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 64 (measured from records)
- 1 in 269 (inferred from the name graph)
20,317 people, 2025
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Liv in NO Norway, SE Sweden, US United States and 1 more.
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)- Old Norselíf(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*lībą(measured from records)
From Old Norse líf, from Proto-Germanic *lībą.
Cited for this meaning 5
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Clauson, An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish (1972)
- Nordic Names
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lïv 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.
20,317 people counted by SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891), 2025. 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: SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lïv mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Norse líf, from Proto-Germanic *lībą. Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Wiktionary and 3 other sources.
- Is Lïv a male or female name?
- Lïv 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Lïv?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 20 thousand people named Lïv, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled liv. After it come Sweden, United States, Denmark and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Lïv most common?
- Lïv is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 269 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Lïv?
- In Norway, the national register counted 20,317 people named Lïv in 2025, about 1 in 269 residents.
What do you want to know about Lïv?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C3%AFvThe 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, “Lïv” — ranked 42nd in Norway (SSB). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.