Libby
- Pronunciation
- [Li-bby]
- Gender
- Male
- Meaning
- Diminutive Of Elizabeth.
- Origin
- English
Libby Popularity Snapshot
Across the entire US Social Security Administration record (1880–2024), 5 baby boys have been named Libby. The name peaked in 1955 with 5 US births that year (rank #4167).
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Quick Facts About Libby
US Popularity History (2002–2019)
Annual US births named Libby by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2009 with 355 girls named Libby (girl rank #798 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2019, ranked #1,000 for girls (258 US births). That's 202 places below its 2009 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Libby Most Popular?
Average girl-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's girls-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Libby the strongest states are New York, Mississippi, Iowa.
Strongest girls-name states
Weakest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Carolina | #1,024 | 26 |
| 2 | Ohio | #940 | 58 |
| 3 | New Jersey | #846 | 44 |
| 4 | Tennessee | #830 | 34 |
| 5 | Oklahoma | #801 | 15 |
| 6 | South Carolina | #792 | 17 |
| 7 | Wisconsin | #777 | 32 |
| 8 | Minnesota | #743 | 30 |
| 9 | Kentucky | #738 | 17 |
| 10 | Alabama | #702 | 47 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Libby in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
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Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Libby against today's most popular girls-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).
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