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Liel

#4,939 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

My God

Liel has been given to 563 babies in the U.S. since 2002. In 2025 it ranked #4,939 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 35 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 80% girls, 20% boys all-time.

Babies named Liel, 2025

1 in 123,000

Liel over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Liel over time

In 2025, Liel went to 75% girls and 25% boys.

20022025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Liel: meaning, origin, and history

My God

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Liel means

Liel means “my God”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 452 girls were recorded with the name Liel between 2002 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 35 in 2022; its best national rank was #4,167 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,952 in 2020 to #4,939 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,137 in 2015 to #4,939 in 2025.

In the United States, 111 boys were recorded with the name Liel between 2003 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2023; its best national rank was #6,099 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,176 in 2020 to #8,648 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Liel?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 123,000
27 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 59,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,939
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
85,108 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Liel sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Liel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Liels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Liel was born before 2016 — so the typical Liel is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
41.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
452
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Choose a decade

2010s — 41.2% of all recorded uses (186).

Is Liel rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−685
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+13
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,198
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.59×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
77.1%
Peak was 2022 (35)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,167
2022

Spellings of Liel

Liel is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 50.1% against Liel's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Liel is used

Across 1910–2025, Liel was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 153,432 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Liel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Liel around the world

Where Liel ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2025–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    2006–2025
    #2,977
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2014–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Liel by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,939
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 13
Best rank ever
#4,167
2022
Peak year
2022
35 that year
First recorded
2002
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
452
Count in 2025
27

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,648
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,528
Best rank ever
#6,099
2023
Peak year
2023
15 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
111
Count in 2025
9

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