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Ligia

Girls' name

Form of Ligeia

Ligia has been given to 702 babies in the U.S. since 1918. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1985, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Ligia, 2024

1 in 557,000

Ligia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ligia: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Ligeia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ligia means

Ligia is a form of Ligeia.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Ligia is used in Romanian and Spanish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈli.xja/ for Ligia.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ligeia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 702 girls were recorded with the name Ligia between 1918 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 28 in 1985; its best national rank was #2,913 in 1971.

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 Ligia?

Ligia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 270,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ligia 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ligia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ligias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ligia was born before 1985 — so the typical Ligia is around 40 today.

Median birth year
1985
About 40 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
26.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
16.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
664
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1980s — 26.4% of all recorded uses (185).

Is Ligia 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1985 (28)
Years since peak
40
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,913
1971

Spellings of Ligia

Ligia is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 37.6% against Ligia'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 Ligia is used

Across 1910–2025, Ligia was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 155,842 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 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. Ligia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Ligia around the world

Where Ligia 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
    2011–2015
    #4,103
    in 2015
  • France
    1968–1984
    #2,402
    in 1984
  • Canada
    1998–1998
    #2,528
    in 1998

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.

Ligia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,913
1971
Peak year
1985
28 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
702
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ligia

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Ligia

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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