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How popular is the name Libby?

Births per year, rank history and how many Libbies are alive today.

Libby (female), once a common girls' name, is now an uncommon choice for new babies in England and Wales, ranked 502nd in 2025 with 80 given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2005, when 1,131 babies were given the name, the 48th most popular that year. It has declined since 2005; the 2025 figure is roughly 7% of its peak. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 15,000 babies have been named Libby, counting all spellings, in England and Wales since the 1990s. Libby is one spelling of a name also recorded as Libbie; the combined figures below cover every spelling. Libby is also a common short form of Elizabeth, so many people called Libby are registered under the longer name.

Across all spellings of the name, the Libby you are most likely to meet is around 20 years old. Half of all Libbies born in England and Wales are between 15 and 23, and there are at least 15,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 4.7% chance that at least one of them will be called Libby.

How many babies are named Libby each year?

Includes all spellings: Libby, Libbie. Figures before 1996 are estimates.

Where does the Libby spelling rank?

Where does the Libbie spelling rank?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.