Livingston
- Gender
- Mostly girls
- Say it
- LIV-ing-stun
- Origin
- Scottish
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Livingston is a name of Scottish origin, meaning “Leving's settlement”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Livingston mean?
Scottish: Scottish place-name surname, from a settler named Leving
“Leving's settlement”
Explorer David Livingstone, of 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?', spelled the surname with a final e.
Is Livingston a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Livingston has been given to girls and boys, mostly girls. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls and 5 boys in the US.
How popular is Livingston in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 11,928th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Livingston, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 15 girls. It first appears in the records in 2004. 5 boys were also named Livingston in 2025 (12,003rd for boys).
Half of all the girls named Livingston in the US since 1880 were born between 2017 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Livingston in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,247 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,586 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,459 |
| 2020 | 11 | #8,948 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,146 |
| 2017 | 10 | #9,939 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,408 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,092 |
Nicknames for Livingston
- Liv 16 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Livingston
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Leighton, Emerson, Elowyn, Lennon, Isla, Elowen, Everly, Madisson, Emberlynn, Addison, Lakelynn, Anderson
More Scottish names
Finley, Logan, Arabella, Cameron, Bonnie, Paisley, Brody, Carson, Maxwell, Brodie, Finlay, Blair, Lennox, Skye, Knox, Dallas
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Livingston: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/livingston, updated 20 October 2026.