Live

loc · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Live is a name, most frequently recorded in the United States. It appears chiefly in English and Arabic, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: To be alive; to have life.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 16K◐
  • CACanada1 in 141K
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 1.9M

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

438K ●

in 5 countries

Sources
98 ●

2.4K records

Official registry-verified

Meaning & origin●

To be alive; to have life.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Live is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States334,5231.3K rec.—197Live98
CA Canada1,56538 rec.——Live12
GB United Kingdom14981 rec.——Live25
RU Russia1551 rec.——Live14
NO Norway—64 rec.—15K—20
BR Brazil—0 rec.—132—1
DK Denmark———57——
SE Sweden—17 rec.—43—8
FI Finland—4 rec.—20—2
FR France—2 rec.—11—1
CR Costa Rica—0 rec.—9—1
WS Samoa———8——

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English336K77%
  • Arabic3081%
  • Hindi631%
  • Chinese351%
  • Spanish301%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English336,25977%
Arabic3081%
Hindi631%
Chinese351%
Spanish301%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Live is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish name2.4K records spelled Live7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, United States

    Also written Lîvę, Lïvë, Livē, Lïvê, Livë

  • French surname756 records spelled Live10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Livé, Lïve, Livè, Lįve, Livę

  • German surname736 records spelled Live3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany

    Also written Lîvë

  • a separate name258 records spelled Live11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, India, Russia

    Also written Lïvé, L̶i̶v̶e̶, Livē, Lïvê, Lívé

57 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Live 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 English, v., ndevu = levu, filu, va

    as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language

  • In Finnish, synonym of lipeä (“lye”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Portuguese, video stream (either a live stream or a recording of a past live stream)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of līveō

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Polish, live (seen or heard from a broadcast, as it happens)

    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.

Over time●

0501001502001960198020002020198 · 2020

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Live in SSB — Navn (1880–present), Norway, 1945–2025
Yearrecords
19457
19468
19478
19488
19497
19505
19515
195210
19538
19547
19557
19565
19576
195812
19605
19619
19627
19636
19645
196510
19667
19679
196817
196916
197018
197113
197217
197318
197419
19759
197616
197714
197817
197911
198017
198119
198218
198321
198424
198527
198621
198728
198821
198929
199027
199134
199219
199337
199430
199531
199628
199743
199852
199942
200044
200160
200260
200360
200478
2005104
2006109
200768
200893
2009101
2010115
2011123
2012175
2013147
2014132
2015144
2016151
2017183
2018129
2019182
2020198
2021144
2022163
2023131
2024158
2025144

NO SSB — Navn (1880–present) — 80 years between 1945–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Live Fyrand, b. 1942Live Bressendorf Lindseth, b. 1950Live Landmark, b. 1969Live Maria Roggen, b. 1970Live Bonnevie, b. 1971Live Nelvik, b. 1982Live Foyn Friis, b. 1985Liive Milena, b. 1989Live Frisak, b. 1989

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 30 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Live
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—15K#312
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20254.1K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20244K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20233.8K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20223.7K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20213.5K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20203.3K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20193.2K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20183K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20172.9K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20162.7K—
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20152.5K—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 243 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Live?
Our records include 437,866 bearers of Live across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
In which country does Live have the most bearers?
Live is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled live.
What does the name Live mean?
Recorded meaning: To be alive; to have life.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Live”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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