Liviu
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: Þjóðskrá Íslands, 2026
Liviu is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country, where it is the 78th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Latin Livius (“Livy”).
- RORomania≈1 in 460(inferred from the name graph)
- MDMoldova1 in 1K
- ITItaly≈1 in 29K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 189 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 460 (inferred from the name graph)
≈41,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Latin Livius (“Livy”).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Liviu 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #78 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 460 | — | Liviu | 131 |
| MD Moldova | #188 | 3,366 | 1 in 1K | 3.4K | Liviu | 38 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Liviu | 63 |
| ES Spain | — | 772 | 1 in 65K | 786 | Liviu | 71 |
| US United States | — | 590 | 1 in 564K | 590 | Liviu | 189 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 34K | 13 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | 11 | 1 in 32K | 11 | — | — |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; e-services.md — living population register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Liviu Rebreanub. 1885RORomanian writer (1885-1944)
- Liviu Librescub. 1930RORomanian-Israeli-American scientist and Holocaust survivor, killed in Virginia Tech massacre
- Liviu Dragneab. 1962RORomanian politician (born 1962)
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)32 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Liviu mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Latin Livius (“Livy”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- What are other forms of the name Liviu?
- In the etymology graph, Livio, Livy and Livius are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Liviu a male or female name?
- Liviu is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Spain (INE), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Norway (SSB) and Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026).
- Which countries have the most people named Liviu?
- Mondonomo estimates about 41 thousand people named Liviu in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled liviu. After it come Moldova, Italy, Spain and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Liviu?
- In Moldova, the national register counted 3,366 people named Liviu, about 1 in 1.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Liviu compared with other names?
- In Romania, Liviu is the 78th most common given name of 34,167 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Liviu?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/liviuThe 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, “Liviu” — the 78th most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.