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The first name 
Liberty

Liberty is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.

Liberty is a common name for girls!

The name Liberty isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Liberty ranks 554. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 3 were named Liberty. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Liberty.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Liberty

What does the name 
Liberty mean?

The name Liberty comes from the English word ‘liberty’, derived from Latin ‘libertas’ for ‘freedom’.

Liberty rose in popularity... in three different periods: after the end of World War I, the American bicentennial in 1976 and after 2001.

Liberty has 7 letters 
and begins with an L

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names – 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A and S.

With seven letters, the name Liberty has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with an L, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which girls' name with L is the most common... the answer is Linda.

Other names with 
L, i, b, e, r, t and y

If you take all the letters in the name Liberty – L, i, b, e, r, t and y – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Britley or Lyberti.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Liberty

If your name is Liberty and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Liberty

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Liberty, you can simply say:

Lion

Igloo

Butterfly

Elephant

Rocket

Tiger

Yoyo

This is how the name Liberty is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Liberty in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Liberty

Liberty

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Liberty

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Liberty is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

L
I
B
E
R
T
Y

Have you ever waved the name Liberty

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

L
I
B
E
R
T
Y

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Liberty sounds like this: