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Liwia

Gender
Girl
Say it
LEEV-yah
Origin
Latin
UK rank, 2025
#3,101 for girls

Liwia is a girls' name of Latin origin. In 2025 it ranked 3,101st for girls in the UK (8 babies).

What does Liwia mean?

Latin: Polish form of Livia

Livia Drusilla was the wife of Augustus, the first Roman emperor.

Is Liwia a girl's or a boy's name?

Liwia is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Liwia in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#3,101among girls
Babies in 2025
8about 1 in 35,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steadydown 5% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 8 girls in the UK were named Liwia, making it the 3,101st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,009th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 11 girls.

Half of all the girls named Liwia in the UK since 1996 were born between 2014 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.

Among girls in 2025, it was 3,033rd in England and Wales.

2008Busiest: 11 in 20162025
Liwia in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20258#3,101
20243#5,966
20238#3,098
20225#4,168
202111#2,478
20208#3,009
20196#3,738
20186#3,702
201710#2,652
201611#2,510
201510#2,629
20146#3,702
20135#4,267
20123#6,108
20115#4,244
20108#2,992
20090–
20084#4,742

Names like Liwia

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Liwia: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/liwia, updated 20 October 2026.