Libby
#1,144 for girls in 2025, 202 births · Last seen for boys in 1955 at #3,886
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1934 · 119 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 17,966since 1881
Libby over time
Rank among girls' names. Libby has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,144 | 202 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,120 | 216 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,094 | 225 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,022 | 253 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,181 | 206 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,152 | 205 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,000 | 258 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,085 | 232 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,069 | 239 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,046 | 252 | — | |
| 2015 | #997 | 270 | — | |
| 2014 | #887 | 306 | — | |
| 2013 | #888 | 290 | — | |
| 2012 | #916 | 282 | — | |
| 2011 | #927 | 279 | — | |
| 2010 | #793 | 346 | — | |
| 2009 | #797 | 355 | — | |
| 2008 | #882 | 316 | — | |
| 2007 | #866 | 323 | — | |
| 2006 | #789 | 347 | — | |
| 2005 | #780 | 333 | — | |
| 2004 | #824 | 301 | — | |
| 2003 | #922 | 256 | — | |
| 2002 | #977 | 226 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,011 | 212 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,065 | 194 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,249 | 150 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,161 | 162 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,218 | 147 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,261 | 138 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,214 | 141 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,444 | 110 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,679 | 89 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,730 | 86 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,677 | 88 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,503 | 103 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,910 | 68 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,788 | 70 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,398 | 96 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,447 | 88 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,395 | 92 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,550 | 73 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,303 | 93 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,325 | 94 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,294 | 98 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,169 | 115 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,442 | 84 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,473 | 77 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,231 | 98 | — | |
| 1976 | #992 | 128 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,012 | 119 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,003 | 120 | — | |
| 1973 | #897 | 139 | — | |
| 1972 | #972 | 124 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,074 | 112 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,036 | 119 | — | |
| 1969 | #826 | 155 | — | |
| 1968 | #760 | 171 | — | |
| 1967 | #678 | 204 | — | |
| 1966 | #757 | 169 | — | |
| 1965 | #741 | 181 | — | |
| 1964 | #731 | 203 | — | |
| 1963 | #675 | 221 | — | |
| 1962 | #646 | 245 | — | |
| 1961 | #634 | 257 | — | |
| 1960 | #618 | 264 | — | |
| 1959 | #647 | 239 | — | |
| 1958 | #626 | 245 | — | |
| 1957 | #684 | 209 | — | |
| 1956 | #757 | 165 | — | |
| 1955 | #839 | 134 | #3,886 | 5 |
| 1954 | #745 | 154 | — | |
| 1953 | #749 | 148 | — | |
| 1952 | #761 | 137 | — | |
| 1951 | #819 | 119 | — | |
| 1950 | #794 | 119 | — | |
| 1949 | #714 | 141 | — | |
| 1948 | #715 | 138 | — | |
| 1947 | #674 | 155 | — | |
| 1946 | #680 | 137 | — | |
| 1945 | #722 | 106 | — | |
| 1944 | #701 | 114 | — | |
| 1943 | #778 | 100 | — | |
| 1942 | #762 | 98 | — | |
| 1941 | #699 | 101 | — | |
| 1940 | #802 | 78 | — | |
| 1939 | #705 | 93 | — | |
| 1938 | #646 | 112 | — | |
| 1937 | #695 | 97 | — | |
| 1936 | #672 | 97 | — | |
| 1935 | #679 | 96 | — | |
| 1934 | #604 | 119 | — | |
| 1933 | #610 | 113 | — | |
| 1932 | #715 | 90 | — | |
| 1931 | #819 | 69 | — | |
| 1930 | #894 | 65 | — | |
| 1929 | #809 | 76 | — | |
| 1928 | #902 | 66 | — | |
| 1927 | #736 | 94 | — | |
| 1926 | #893 | 69 | — | |
| 1925 | #970 | 59 | — | |
| 1924 | #861 | 76 | — | |
| 1923 | #819 | 80 | — | |
| 1922 | #906 | 65 | — | |
| 1921 | #717 | 104 | — | |
| 1920 | #791 | 83 | — | |
| 1919 | #651 | 114 | — | |
| 1918 | #632 | 125 | — | |
| 1917 | #657 | 107 | — | |
| 1916 | #663 | 106 | — | |
| 1915 | #632 | 108 | — | |
| 1914 | #736 | 61 | — | |
| 1913 | #712 | 53 | — | |
| 1912 | #668 | 56 | — | |
| 1911 | #650 | 44 | — | |
| 1910 | #710 | 35 | — | |
| 1909 | #719 | 31 | — | |
| 1908 | #829 | 22 | — | |
| 1907 | #775 | 23 | — | |
| 1906 | #793 | 21 | — | |
| 1905 | #734 | 24 | — | |
| 1904 | #837 | 19 | — | |
| 1903 | #896 | 15 | — | |
| 1902 | #1,075 | 11 | — | |
| 1901 | #795 | 17 | — | |
| 1900 | #780 | 22 | — | |
| 1899 | #791 | 17 | — | |
| 1898 | #768 | 19 | — | |
| 1897 | #1,037 | 10 | — | |
| 1896 | #670 | 22 | — | |
| 1895 | #858 | 14 | — | |
| 1894 | #905 | 12 | — | |
| 1893 | #1,437 | 5 | — | |
| 1892 | #958 | 10 | — | |
| 1891 | #943 | 9 | — | |
| 1890 | #872 | 10 | — | |
| 1889 | #1,279 | 5 | — | |
| 1888 | #959 | 8 | — | |
| 1887 | #860 | 8 | — | |
| 1886 | #828 | 8 | — | |
| 1885 | #695 | 10 | — | |
| 1884 | #1,024 | 5 | — | |
| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | #830 | 5 | — | |
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Libby! It came in at #830, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1881–1884, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Libby
- 24 spots since 2024 (#1,120 → #1,144)
- 8 spots since 2020 (#1,152 → #1,144)
- 147 spots since 2015 (#997 → #1,144)
- Biggest jump: 532 spots in 1894 (#1,437 → #905)
- Biggest drop: 479 spots in 1893 (#958 → #1,437)
- Debuted 1881
- Peaked 1934 at #604 (119 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 100 yrs · run 1903–1969
- Highest: 1 in 5,138 girls born in 2010 were named Libby (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 7,957 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #604 in 1934, was only 1 in 8,775 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 15.9% of all girls named Libby (2,863) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 49 | #695 (1885) | #925 |
| 1890s | 128 | #670 (1896) | #924 |
| 1900s | 205 | #719 (1909) | #823 |
| 1910s | 809 | #632 (1918) | #671 |
| 1920s | 772 | #717 (1921) | #840 |
| 1930s | 951 | #604 (1934) | #704 |
| 1940s | 1,168 | #674 (1947) | #725 |
| 1950s | 1,669 | #626 (1958) | #742 |
| 1960s | 2,070 | #618 (1960) | #707 |
| 1970s | 1,120 | #897 (1973) | #1,113 |
| 1980s | 887 | #1,169 (1980) | #1,458 |
| 1990s | 1,214 | #1,161 (1998) | #1,414 |
| 2000s | 2,863 | #780 (2005) | #891 |
| 2010s | 2,754 | #793 (2010) | #961 |
| 2020s | 1,307 | #1,022 (2022) | #1,119 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Libby in 1955
Top girls' names in 1955
Top boys' names in 1955
More about 1955
girls
1,955,277 girls got a published name in 1955; 1 in 14,592 of them was named Libby, which outranked 87.5% of the 6,732 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
2,059,889 boys got a published name in 1955; 1 in 411,978 of them was named Libby, which outranked 11.7% of the 4,400 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 514 names at #3,886; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.