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Liya

#1,344 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Liya has been given to 2,375 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #1,344 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 165 recorded.

Babies named Liya, 2025

1 in 20,100

Liya over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Liya: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Liya means

Liya is a given name.

The naming story behind Liya

Wikidata records Liya as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q20000950, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,375 girls were recorded with the name Liya between 1992 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 165 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,344 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,701 in 2020 to #1,344 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,148 in 2015 to #1,344 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 Liya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 20,100
165 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 9,740
0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,344
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
13,928 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Liya 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 13,928 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Liya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Liyas were born

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

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
42.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,375
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 42.1% of all recorded uses (1,001).

Is Liya 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
+251
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+357
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+804
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.85×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (165)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,344
2025

Spellings of Liya

Liya is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 21.6% against Liya's 0.04%.

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 Liya is used

Across 2016–2025, Liya was most concentrated in Virginia — about 1 in 4,000 girls, against 1 in 11,535 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

125 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Virginia1 in 4,000
  2. 2Washington1 in 5,263
  3. 3Maryland1 in 5,882
  4. 4New York1 in 5,882
  5. 5California1 in 9,091
  6. 6Georgia1 in 10,000
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 11,111
  8. 8Illinois1 in 12,500

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.

Liya around the world

Where Liya 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
    1998–2025
    #610
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2005–2024
    #790
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2011–2014
    #876
    in 2014
  • France
    1999–2025
    #366
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2024
    #794
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1990–2012
    #431
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Liya

People whose public names include Liya, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Liya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,344
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 357
Best rank ever
#1,344
2025
Peak year
2025
165 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,375
Count in 2025
165

Names similar to Liya

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

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Names with a curve like Liya

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Liya, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Liya

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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