Entry № 5982 · Latin origin

Livia Livia — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ LIV-ee-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Bluish, envious; olive"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "bluish, envious; olive".

Livia comes from the Roman family name Livius — possibly meaning "bluish" (the color of olives) or "envious." Livia Drusilla (58 BCE-29 CE) was the third wife of Augustus and Rome's first empress.

Livia entered the U.S. top 1000 in 2007 and has been rising.

Rome's first empress. Augustus's wife.

The name in its native script.

Livia
Transliteration
Livia
Pronunciation
/ ˈlɪv.i.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Livia stands.

Livia does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Livias before her.

Real people
Livia Drusilla
Rome's first empress.
58 BCE – 29 CE
In fiction
Livia Soprano
Tony's mother in The Sopranos.
HBO, 1999–2007

Names connected to Livia.

The number behind Livia.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Livia reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.