Given name & surname
Liberato
“one who is independent; free”
Liberato is a variant of Liberio. One Latin interpretation is “one who is independent; free.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Liberato is a variant of Liberio. One Latin interpretation is “one who is independent; free.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Liberato is a variant of Liberio. An origin associated with Liberio is Latin.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1912. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Liberato through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 166
- 166 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1920
- 17 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1998. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 17 in 1920. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 485 as a first name in 2020; 1,351 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Liberato’s family of names
Liberato has a related form in Liberio.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Liberato
- Liberato CacaceNew Zealand association football playerborn 2000
- Liberato Marcial RojasPresident of Paraguay (1870-1922)
- Liberato Firmino SifoniaItalian composer (1917–1995)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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