Lively
Lively was the 3498th most popular name for girls in 2025, given to 44 babies. Its best year was 2024, when it ranked 2450th with 74 babies. Over the last ten years it has moved up 3,968 places. More babies were named Lively in the 2020s than in any other decade.
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- Rank in 2025
- #3,498 girls, down 797 places since 2020
- Babies in 2025
- 44girls
- Girls and boys
- Almost always a girl’s name2021–2025
- Peak year
- 202474 babies
- Total since 1880
- 610babies recorded
Lively popularity since 1880
| Year | Rank (girls) | Babies (girls) |
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| 2025 | #3,498 | 44 |
| 2020 | #2,701 | 62 |
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How popular is Lively, counting every spelling?
Lively has no other common spelling that sounds the same.
How many kids will share the name Lively?
44 of the 3,606,400 babies born in the US in 2025 were named Lively (0.01 per 1,000 births). For a girl named Lively born in 2025, the chance that another child with the same name is in a class of 20 children the same age is under 1 in 50. If every grade liked the name as much as the 2025 babies do, only about one elementary school in 191 (of 430 pupils) would have a child named Lively.
Shares of all registered births (NCHS); classes assumed to be children born the same year. How we estimate this.
How old are people named Lively?
About 600 people born in the US named Lively are alive today, with a median age of 5; half are between 3 and 8. That makes Lively a young name: most people with it are children.
Babies given the name each year (SSA) times the share of that birth year still alive (SSA life tables). Counts people born in the US only. Method.
Lively by state
How common Lively was among girls born in each state in 2021–2025. It is notably more common than nationally in Texas (2.0×). In 46 states fewer than five girls a year got the name, too few for SSA to publish, so those states show as zero.
Names with a similar history
These names rose and fell in step with Lively: their share of US girls followed the most similar curve since 1880. If you like Lively, they share its era and feel.
Questions about the name Lively
How popular is the name Lively?
Lively was the 3498th most popular name for girls in 2025, given to 44 babies. Its best year was 2024, when it ranked 2450th with 74 babies. Over the last ten years it has moved up 3,968 places. More babies were named Lively in the 2020s than in any other decade.
Is Lively a boy or girl name?
In 2021–2025, almost always a girl’s name given the name Lively in the US.
Where is Lively most popular?
In 2021–2025, Lively was most common in Texas (0.08 per 1,000 girls), followed by Georgia and California.