Liev
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʎɪɛv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Liev is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- CLChile≈1 in 246K(inferred from the name graph)
- CNChina≈1 in 684K
- CACanada≈1 in 3.4M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 48 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 246K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Chile, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Liev 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 684K | — | Liev | 1 |
| CL Chile | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 246K | 1 | — | — |
| US United States | ≈58 est. | ≈1 in 5.7M | 20 | Liev | 48 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 4.8M | listed | Liev | 5 |
| CA Canada | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 3.4M | — | Liev | 5 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 3.7M | 5 | — | 2 |
| AT Austria | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | 3 | — | 2 |
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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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)
Liev 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 gmw-cfr, body
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)
- Liev Barclayb. 1898USAmerican military personnel killed in WWI
- Liev Schreiberb. 1967USAmerican actor
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 17 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Liev?
- A machine transcription gives /ʎɪɛv/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Liev have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Liev in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled liev.
- How common is the name Liev?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2,000 people in China have Liev as their first surname, about 1 in 684 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
What do you want to know about Liev?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lievThe 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, “Liev”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.