Liberty
#1,186 for girls in 2025, 195 births · Last seen for boys in 2017 at #10,775
Given to girls 99.0% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2004 · 749 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 15,255since 1912
Liberty over time
Rank among girls' names. Liberty has never cracked the top 400 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 | #1,186 | 195 | — | |
| 2024 | #975 | 266 | — | |
| 2023 | #883 | 304 | — | |
| 2022 | #760 | 377 | — | |
| 2021 | #619 | 479 | — | |
| 2020 | #651 | 443 | — | |
| 2019 | #654 | 447 | — | |
| 2018 | #578 | 534 | — | |
| 2017 | #564 | 534 | #10,775 | 6 |
| 2016 | #541 | 577 | — | |
| 2015 | #554 | 561 | — | |
| 2014 | #560 | 548 | — | |
| 2013 | #529 | 565 | — | |
| 2012 | #593 | 492 | — | |
| 2011 | #565 | 513 | — | |
| 2010 | #501 | 594 | — | |
| 2009 | #518 | 586 | — | |
| 2008 | #617 | 496 | — | |
| 2007 | #633 | 469 | — | |
| 2006 | #539 | 552 | — | |
| 2005 | #492 | 622 | — | |
| 2004 | #406 | 749 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #495 | 578 | — | |
| 2002 | #481 | 584 | #9,392 | 6 |
| 2001 | #745 | 321 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,075 | 192 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,121 | 177 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,290 | 139 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,574 | 102 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,767 | 84 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,432 | 113 | — | |
| 1994 | #2,047 | 68 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,967 | 71 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,987 | 69 | — | |
| 1991 | #2,270 | 57 | #7,271 | 6 |
| 1990 | #2,174 | 59 | — | |
| 1989 | #2,714 | 41 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #2,447 | 44 | — | |
| 1987 | #2,360 | 44 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,293 | 104 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,601 | 37 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,915 | 30 | #5,561 | 6 |
| 1983 | #1,961 | 52 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,288 | 43 | #6,385 | 5 |
| 1981 | #1,935 | 55 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,644 | 70 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,712 | 64 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,537 | 72 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,576 | 68 | #5,845 | 5 |
| 1976 | #543 | 321 | #2,601 | 16 |
| 1975 | #1,192 | 97 | #3,941 | 8 |
| 1974 | #1,369 | 75 | #3,318 | 10 |
| 1973 | #2,349 | 32 | #3,013 | 11 |
| 1972 | #2,398 | 30 | #3,344 | 9 |
| 1971 | #2,477 | 30 | #4,907 | 5 |
| 1970 | #3,208 | 20 | #2,891 | 11 |
| 1969 | — | — | ||
| 1968 | — | — | ||
| 1967 | #5,457 | 7 | — | |
| 1966 | #4,493 | 9 | — | |
| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 | — | |
| 1964 | #4,636 | 9 | — | |
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 | — | |
| 1962 | #5,860 | 6 | — | |
| 1961 | #6,567 | 5 | — | |
| 1960 | — | — | ||
| 1959 | — | — | ||
| 1958 | — | — | ||
| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 | #3,993 | 5 |
| 1956 | — | — | ||
| 1955 | — | — | ||
| 1954 | — | — | ||
| 1953 | — | — | ||
| 1952 | — | — | ||
| 1951 | — | — | ||
| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 | — | |
| 1949 | — | — | ||
| 1948 | — | — | ||
| 1947 | — | — | ||
| 1946 | — | — | ||
| 1945 | — | — | ||
| 1944 | — | — | ||
| 1943 | — | — | ||
| 1942 | #3,194 | 9 | — | |
| 1941 | #4,420 | 5 | — | |
| 1940 | — | — | ||
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | — | — | ||
| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | #4,181 | 5 | — | |
| 1935 | — | — | ||
| 1934 | — | — | ||
| 1933 | — | — | ||
| 1932 | — | — | ||
| 1931 | — | — | ||
| 1930 | — | — | ||
| 1929 | #4,570 | 5 | — | |
| 1928 | — | — | ||
| 1927 | #3,875 | 7 | — | |
| 1926 | #3,564 | 8 | — | |
| 1925 | #4,426 | 6 | — | |
| 1924 | #3,665 | 8 | — | |
| 1923 | #3,641 | 8 | — | |
| 1922 | #2,958 | 11 | — | |
| 1921 | #1,821 | 23 | #4,322 | 5 |
| 1920 | #1,952 | 20 | — | |
| 1919 | #1,604 | 25 | — | |
| 1918 | #585 | 150 | #2,165 | 14 |
| 1917 | #1,079 | 43 | #2,956 | 8 |
| 1916 | #3,919 | 6 | #3,177 | 7 |
| 1915 | — | — | ||
| 1914 | #2,876 | 7 | — | |
| 1913 | — | — | ||
| 1912 | #2,360 | 7 | — | |
| 1911 | — | — | ||
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| 1883 | — | — | ||
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | — | ||
| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Liberty! It came in at #2,360, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1913, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
See more about Liberty
- 211 spots since 2024 (#975 → #1,186)
- 535 spots since 2020 (#651 → #1,186)
- 632 spots since 2015 (#554 → #1,186)
- Biggest jump: 649 spots in 1976 (#1,192 → #543)
- Biggest drop: 1,033 spots in 1977 (#543 → #1,576)
- Debuted 1912
- Peaked 2004 at #406 (749 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 19 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 26 yrs · run 2001–2024
- Highest: 1 in 2,452 girls born in 2004 were named Liberty (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,242 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 35.2% of all girls named Liberty (5,365) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 238 | #585 (1918) | #2,071 |
| 1920s | 96 | #1,821 (1921) | #3,386 |
| 1930s | 5 | #4,181 (1936) | #4,181 |
| 1940s | 14 | #3,194 (1942) | #3,807 |
| 1950s | 10 | #5,301 (1950) | #5,694 |
| 1960s | 46 | #4,493 (1966) | #5,735 |
| 1970s | 809 | #543 (1976) | #1,836 |
| 1980s | 520 | #1,293 (1986) | #2,216 |
| 1990s | 939 | #1,121 (1999) | #1,763 |
| 2000s | 5,149 | #406 (2004) | #600 |
| 2010s | 5,365 | #501 (2010) | #564 |
| 2020s | 2,064 | #619 (2021) | #846 |
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.
Liberty in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 3,233 of them was named Liberty, which outranked 96.9% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #560Gloria544
- #562Savanna541
- #563Milani539
- #564Liberty534
- #564Karsyn534
- #564Rory534
- #567Lauryn533
- #568Galilea532
- #568Giuliana532
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 308,493 of them was named Liberty, which outranked 24.4% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #9,696Zylas7
- #9,696Zymarion7
- #9,696Zyrus7
- #10,775Liberty6
- #10,775Aadhavan6
- #10,775Aadhyan6
- #10,775Aahaan6
- #12,246Aadrit5
- #12,246Aagam5
- #12,246Aaidyn5
Tied with 1,470 names at #10,775; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.