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Lija

Girls' name

Light rain

Lija has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 1979. 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 2014, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Lija, 2014

1 in 618,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lija: meaning, origin, and history

Light rain

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lija means

Lija means “light rain”, associated with lija.

Origin, language, and formation

Lija is used in Latvian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lia and Lía.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11 girls were recorded with the name Lija between 1979 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2014; its best national rank was #11,154 in 1979.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Lija?

Lija had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014
1 in 618,000
6 of 3,706,812 births
Among girls only
1 in 298,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2014
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
428,229 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lija 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 2014 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 428,229 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lija. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lijas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lija was born before 2014 — so the typical Lija is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
54.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Lija 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
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2014 (6)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#11,154
1979

Spellings of Lija

Lija is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 23.9% against Lija's <0.01%.

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.

Lija around the world

Where Lija 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
    2006–2006
    #5,061
    in 2006
  • Canada
    2018–2018
    #3,384
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1977–2004
    #700
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Lija 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
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Best rank ever
#11,154
1979
Peak year
2014
6 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2014
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lija

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

LijahDwijaDijaCijaVijaLijanaEnijaRijaKijaShrijaRaijaSeijaTeijaIjaArijaKenijaDeaijaAmijaLucijaAsijaLidijaSanijaBeijaManija

Sibling names for Lija

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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