Libby Girl
How popular is Libby?
#1,144 girl name in 2025
202 baby girls were named Libby in the US in 2025, making it the 1144th most popular girl name.
Libby popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #1,144 for girls (▼ 24 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 202 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-25% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #997 in 2015, #1,152 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2009 (355 girls) |
| Highest rank | #604 in 1934 |
| First recorded | 1881 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Libby counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Libby family of names ranked #926 for girls in 2025 (#927 the year before), with 233 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Libby | 202 | 87% |
| Libi | 24 | 10% |
| Libbie | 7 | 3% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Libby is most popular
Babies named Libby per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- New York: 0.7 per 1,000 (282 girls)
- Mississippi: 0.3 per 1,000 (12 girls)
- New Jersey: 0.2 per 1,000 (42 girls)
- Iowa: 0.2 per 1,000 (13 girls)
- Alabama: 0.2 per 1,000 (20 girls)
Libby by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 49 | #695 |
| 1890s | 128 | #670 |
| 1900s | 205 | #719 |
| 1910s | 809 | #632 |
| 1920s | 772 | #717 |
| 1930s | 951 | #604 |
| 1940s | 1,168 | #674 |
| 1950s | 1,669 | #626 |
| 1960s | 2,070 | #618 |
| 1970s | 1,120 | #897 |
| 1980s | 887 | #1,169 |
| 1990s | 1,214 | #1,159 |
| 2000s | 2,863 | #780 |
| 2010s | 2,754 | #793 |
| 2020s | 1,307 | #1,022 |
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Questions
- Is Libby a boy or girl name?
- Libby is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Libby were girls.
- How popular is the name Libby?
- 202 baby girls were named Libby in the US in 2025, making it the 1144th most popular girl name.
- When was Libby most popular?
- Libby peaked in 2009, when 355 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #604 in 1934.
- How many people are named Libby?
- 17,971 babies have been named Libby in the US since 1880. We estimate about 14,246 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 28.
- Where is Libby most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Libby was most common in New York, at 0.7 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.