Liberty is used as a family name or surname in England. It is 7 characters long in length.

Family Name / Last Name: Liberty
No. of characters: 7
Origin: England
Meaning:

A franchise, or district where peculiar laws and customs are enjoyed. The Lond. Direct. gives us a Jonathan Liberty, but does not inform us whether he has any American relations. There is a village called Liberty in county of Fife.

Liberty is the variant of Leadbeater. This name - variously corrupted to Leadbetter, Leadbitter, Lidbetter, and still further, in vulgar pronunciation, to Libbetter-signifies a beater of lead. In old times, before the process of rolling that metal into sheets by machinery was employed, it was laminated by the laborious manual operation of hammering; and as most churches and other large buildings were roofed with this material, the occupation of the lead -beater was a very common and necessary one. Le Ledbetre in Hundred Rolls.

How popular is Liberty?

Liberty is common in United States, South Africa, Nigeria, Canada, Indonesia, Israel, Ghana, Liberia, Egypt, England.

Liberty is ranked 62542 on our list.

Despite the fact that the number of Liberty bearers increased by 4.66 per cent in 2010 US census to 3552 since 2000, the surname slipped by 312 spots and ranked at 9184. The last name was found in around 1 per hundred thousand population. Please refer to following table for race and ethnicity.

Race 2010 2000
White 89.02 90.39
Black 4.67 3.92
Hispanic or Latino 2.17 1.77
Others 1.89 1.74
American Indian and Alaska Native 1.6 1.56
Asian and Native Hawaiian
& Other Pacific Islander		 0.65 0.62
Liberty is quite popular family name mostly used in United States while Cayman Islands is ahead in terms of density. Around 8027 people have been found who wears Liberty as their family name. Liberty is used widely across the globe. More detailed information can be found below:
RankCountryCount
Countries with thousands of Liberty:
9,824 United States4,157
Countries with hundreds of Liberty:
10,490 South Africa635
17,197 Nigeria572
7,922 Canada534
27,602 Indonesia422
3,026 Israel421
7,799 Ghana346
1,692 Liberia271
32,813 Egypt153
30,919 England117
Countries with low frequency i.e., 50 - 100:
104,347 Philippines68
Countries with very low frequency i.e., 10 - 50:
129,424 Germany31
180,028 France29
12,265 Portugal28
52,673 Uganda28
396,143 India23
66,405 Australia22
236,959 Brazil18
489 Cayman Islands17
54,433 Tanzania12
2,098 Guam12
Countries with very very low frequency i.e., 6 - 10:
112,590 Cameroon9
121,952 Malaysia9
40,289 United Arab Emirates8
186,522 Iran7
116,183 Sweden6
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Liberty Namesakes

  • Arthur Lasenby Liberty, London-based merchant
  • Marcus Liberty, retired American professional basketball player

Liberty Namesakes

  • Arthur Lasenby Liberty, London-based merchant
  • Marcus Liberty, retired American professional basketball player

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