# Liberty (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/liberty/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 15,409 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 154 / 15,255 (99% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 4,200, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From liberty.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 513 | 568 |
| 2012 | 492 | 593 |
| 2013 | 565 | 530 |
| 2014 | 548 | 560 |
| 2015 | 561 | 555 |
| 2016 | 577 | 543 |
| 2017 | 534 | 565 |
| 2018 | 534 | 578 |
| 2019 | 447 | 654 |
| 2020 | 443 | 652 |
| 2021 | 479 | 619 |
| 2022 | 377 | 761 |
| 2023 | 304 | 885 |
| 2024 | 266 | 976 |
| 2025 | 195 | 1,188 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 11 | 2,996 |
| 1971 | 5 | 5,355 |
| 1972 | 9 | 3,513 |
| 1973 | 11 | 3,146 |
| 1974 | 10 | 3,467 |
| 1975 | 8 | 4,157 |
| 1976 | 16 | 2,664 |
| 1977 | 5 | 6,436 |
| 1982 | 5 | 6,957 |
| 1984 | 6 | 6,042 |
| 1989 | 6 | 7,532 |
| 1991 | 6 | 7,854 |
| 2002 | 6 | 10,158 |
| 2004 | 5 | 12,466 |
| 2017 | 6 | 11,612 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 123 | 380 |
| 2012 | 129 | 370 |
| 2013 | 121 | 373 |
| 2014 | 115 | 386 |
| 2015 | 111 | 406 |
| 2016 | 99 | 444 |
| 2017 | 63 | 661 |
| 2018 | 80 | 527 |
| 2019 | 67 | 590 |
| 2020 | 60 | 631 |
| 2021 | 63 | 616 |
| 2022 | 80 | 503 |
| 2023 | 51 | 706 |
| 2024 | 35 | 1,007 |
| 2025 | 29 | 1,133 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 4 | 3,830 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,119 |

## People named Liberty

- Liberty Ross, British model and actor
- Liberty DeVitto, American musician

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.