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Lyvia

Gender
Girl
Say it
LIV-ee-a
Origin
Latin
US rank, 2025
#7,489 for girls

Lyvia is a girls' name of Latin origin. In 2025 it ranked 7,489th for girls in the US (14 babies).

What does Lyvia mean?

Latin: spelling of Livia

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

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

Lyvia is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 14 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Lyvia in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2014, with 7 girls.

2005Busiest: 7 in 20142022
Lyvia in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20222#7,391
20210–
20200–
20190–
20180–
20171#7,682
20162#7,579
20150–
20147#3,321
20135#4,267
20124#5,058
20113#6,007
20106#3,715
20093#5,801
20085#4,065
20073#5,415
20063#5,259
20053#4,976

How popular is Lyvia in the US?

Rank in 2025
#7,489among girls
Babies in 2025
14about 1 in 110,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steadydown 14% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 14 girls in the US were named Lyvia, making it the 7,489th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,165th. Its busiest year was 2014, with 37 girls. It first appears in the records in 1995.

2025 had fewer girls named Lyvia than any year since 2002.

Half of all the girls named Lyvia in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 346 girls in the US were given Lyvia or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #772, up from #7,489 for this spelling alone.

1995Busiest: 37 in 20142025
Lyvia in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202514#7,489
202433#4,293
202322#5,544
202224#5,306
202124#5,233
202024#5,165
201931#4,436
201825#5,148
201724#5,336
201637#3,996
201526#5,125
201437#4,001
201328#4,885
201229#4,834
201132#4,465
201028#4,972
200935#4,268
200820#6,556
200724#5,706
200625#5,382
200522#5,595
200423#5,373
200318#6,294
200213#7,810
200112#8,189
200012#8,020
199912#7,710
19980–
19970–
19965#13,511
19955#13,380

Nicknames for Lyvia

Names like Lyvia

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

Other spellings of Lyvia

More Latin names

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Lyvia: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/lyvia, updated 20 October 2026.