Live

loc · Latin script

Meaning: To be alive; to have life

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Live is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States
  • CACanada
  • GBUnited Kingdom

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
110 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

To be alive; to have life.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Live counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Live is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—197Live110
CA Canada——Live14
GB United Kingdom——Live35
RU Russia——Live16
NO Norway—15K—19
BR Brazil—132—1

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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Live is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, United States

    Also written Lîvę, Lïvê, Livē, Lïvë, Lívé

  • French surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Livé, Lïve, Lįve, Livè, Līvễ

  • German surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany

    Also written Lîvë

  • a separate name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, India, Russia

    Also written Lïvé, Lívê, Lĩṽě, Livę, Lîvể

57 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Live 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, v., ndevu = levu, filu, va

    as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language

  • In Finnish, synonym of lipeä (“lye”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Portuguese, video stream (either a live stream or a recording of a past live stream)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of līveō

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Polish, live (seen or heard from a broadcast, as it happens)

    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)

1940196019802000Live Fyrand, b. 1942Live Bressendorf Lindseth, b. 1950Live Landmark, b. 1969Live Maria Roggen, b. 1970Live Bonnevie, b. 1971Live Nelvik, b. 1982Live Foyn Friis, b. 1985Liive Milena, b. 1989Live Frisak, b. 1989

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 30 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Live
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020197#98,501
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—157#44,648
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010128#132,206
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000107#142,819
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

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

What does the name Live mean, and where does it come from?
To be alive; to have life. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Live have the most bearers?
Live is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled live.

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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, “Live”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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