Livia 1

Livia is beautiful, refreshing, and a bit aristocratic. I find its meaning interesting, but I overall see it as a sensible choice for a daughter. Rolls off the tongue and isn’t as unknown as Liviana, but less common and more sophisticated than Olivia. Good name.

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I love Livia Séraphine.

I think Livia is a good name and my friend is called Liva.

It does bother me when people call this a 'modern' or chopped-off version of Olivia, when, in fact, this name is much older. While I think both this name and Olivia are lovely, I much prefer Livia. It sounds more sophisticated and feminine to me, and it's a nice change from its uber-popular distant cousin.

Similar look and sound like Olivia, but Livia somehow feels more mature and serious. Olivia is really popular in these days, in many, many countries, so basically Livia is a great alternative for overused Olivia. I like this name!

Love! Very pretty!

Very sophisticated, and it makes a good alternative to the popular Olivia.

I have a friend named Livia. I like it and I think it looks better than Olivia. Olivia is nice too but way too popular and Alivia looks really weird to me. Livia is a nice name.

I come from an Italian family that moved to America and when I was little. I soon realized that no one in America ever pronounced my name correctly and either called me Alivia or Olivia but I didn’t really care until my friends would correct anyone who pronounced it wrong. I love the name so much and even later found out that my name was Liviana but it was shortened so now I’m so very proud of my name to learn its history.

My name is Livia (I pronounce it liv-ee-ah) and I used to hate my name because no one would ever say it right, but after reading this and learning the history behind it I’m so happy it’s my name.

I think that Livia is a really pretty name. I've never met anyone with the name, I have only read it in books. But I love it.

I have a sister named Livia and we all call her Livvy which I think is a sweet nickname for her. I love the name Livia, I meet a few Olivias but no Livias.

I prefer a different name over Livia any day.

This is one of my favorite names. I think it's very pretty and elegant-sounding. I think it sounds a lot better than Olivia. As for the association with Livia Drusilla, she wasn't as awful as I, Claudius makes her out to be, so I wouldn't worry about that.

How pretty!

Decent. I would never be found using it as a first... but I have no complaints over it being a diminutive for the Italian "Liviana." My only worry would be that people may see "Livia," itself, as a "kre8tiv" (made-up) form of "Olivia," or even "Lydia." English-speaking countries will have issues with correct pronunciation, for another point.
Overall: As stated at the beginning, decent. From my understanding it is fairly popular in Italy-- especially Rome.

I love this name! This is my friend's name, but she spells it Livviya. Olivviya is not her full name, it's just Livviya but lots of people call her Olivia, so I don't think it's a great choice for a name.

I really like this name, but am hesitant to use it for our daughter because I'm afraid it will be confused with "Olivia" which is one of the most popular names right now. I'm all about more unique & for now it's still on the list.

I love this name! It makes a nice alternative to Olivia.

Livia is a nice name for a cat, but not a person. When I think of Livia I think of Siân Phillips in "I, Claudius"!

Not such a bad name, but whenever I see it I think of the word 'livid'.

My name is Livia and it´s not very often heard in Germany. I didn´t like my name, but now I like it.