Livingston
Livingston is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 7 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 70.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 191729 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1890
- 1,059people given the name
The story in the numbers
952 boys have been named Livingston in the United States since 1890, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 29 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1948, and the 1920s alone account for 16%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 107 girls have also been given it, 10% of the total.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Livingston | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 5 | |
| 1900s | 12 | |
| 1910s | 122 | |
| 1920s | 154 | |
| 1930s | 95 | |
| 1940s | 115 | |
| 1950s | 92 | |
| 1960s | 59 | |
| 1970s | 26 | |
| 1980s | 61 | |
| 1990s | 66 | |
| 2000s | 34 | |
| 2010s | 69 | |
| 2020s | 42 |
In 1917, its biggest year
Livingston was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1917 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Livingston
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Garvinpeak 1921
- Franklynpeak 1933
- Estonpeak 1915
- Wernerpeak 1930
- Armandpeak 1918
- Carlylepeak 1918
- Ferrispeak 2024
- Harlandpeak 1922
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.