# Livesey (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/livesey/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A habitational surname from Old English.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | English |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 660 |
| US rank (2010) | 34,353 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 467,796 people |
| Change since 2000 | +4.3% (633 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Livesay, Livezey |

## Etymology

From an unrecorded Old English cognate of Old Norse hlíf (“cover, protection”) + īeġ (“island”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Livesey in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 95% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.4% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.9% |
| Two or more races | 1.2% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Livesey in the United Kingdom.

## People named Livesey

- Roger Livesey, British actor (1906–1976)

## Similar surnames

Livesay, Levis, Livas, Lipsey, López, Lopes, Levesque, Lovejoy, Lepage, Lipps, Laubach, Luebke.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.