Liv

Where Liv comes from

Liv hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1938
    Liv Ullmann born
    Norwegian actress, director, and screenwriter
  2. 1956
    First appearance
    #5,952 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1977
    Liv Tyler born
    American actress
  4. 2020
    Peak, #666
    432 babies named Liv — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Liv Tyler · American actress, born 1977
  • Liv Ullmann · Norwegian actress, director, and screenwriter, born 1938
  • Liv Lisa Fries · German actress, born 1990
  • Liv Kristine · Norwegian singer, born 1976
  • Liv Grete Skjelbreid Poirée · Norwegian biathlete, born 1974

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.