Livi
surname · Latin script
Meaning: da Eligio
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 29 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/libi/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated · uncertain
Livi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- PGPapua New Guinea≈1 in 91K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 145K
- BRBrazil≈1 in 290K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 60 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)da Eligio
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Livi, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Livi counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 27K | listed | Livi | 18 |
| BR Brazil | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 290K | 484 | Livi | 54 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 122K | — | Livi | 4 |
| US United States | 213 | 1 in 1.6M | 608 | Livi | 60 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 91K | 2 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 58 | 1 in 145K | 58 | — | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Livi is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, a surname originating as a patronymic
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, genitive/vocative singular of Līvius
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, Livy (Roman historian)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite plural of liv
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bnt-phu, voice
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Ridolfo Livib. 1856ITItalian anthropologist (1856–1920)
- Julien Livib. 1917ITsyndicalist
- Yves Montandb. 1921FRnot in their usual nameFrench-Italian actor and singer (1921–1991)
- Piero Livib. 1925ITItalian film director and screenwriter (1925–2015)
- Grazia Livib. 1930ITItalian writer
- Massimo Livi Baccib. 1936ITItalian demographer and politician (born 1936)
- Jean-Louis Livib. 1941FRFrench film producer
- Roberto Livib. 1942ARArgentine composer (1942-2019)
- Barbara Livib. 1973ITItalian actress
- Alessandro Livib. 1982ITItalian footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)55 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 29 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Livi mean, and where does it come from?
- da Eligio Recorded by Dizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani.
- How do you pronounce Livi?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /libi/; in Spanish /libi/; in Italian /livi/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Livi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Livi in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled livi.
- How common is the name Livi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 213 people named Livi in 2010, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Livi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/liviThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Livi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.