How Many People Are Named Libby?
people named Libby are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 24,234 people in the US has this name
Based on 17,971 babies named Libby in Social Security records from 1881 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
355 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Originally a medieval diminutive of Ibb, itself a diminutive of ISABEL. It is also used as a diminutive of ELIZABETH.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Libby in English. Counting Libby and these spellings together, about 15,206 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Libby in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Libby alive today is about 35 years old, and 53% are under 30. Half of them were between 14 and 59 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Libby first appears in the records in 1881 and was given most often in 2009, to 355 babies. In 2025, 202 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1881 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Libby has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #605, in 1934. In 2025 it ranked #1,146.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #1,146 |
| Best rank | #605 (1934) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #880 in the 2000s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Libby alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Libby were born in New York than in any other state: about 1,557 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Libby was given 2.5 times as often in New York, 2.2 times in North Carolina and 1.9 times in Maine.
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