Liyah
#3,873 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Liyah has been given to 2,200 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #3,873 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 120 recorded.
Babies named Liyah, 2025
1 in 87,200
Liyah over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Liyah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 87,200
- 38 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 42,300
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #3,873
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 60,472 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Liyah sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 60,472 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Liyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Liyahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Liyah was born before 2011 — so the typical Liyah is around 14 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 41.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 94.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,200
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 41.4% of all recorded uses (911).
Is Liyah 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
- +214
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,067
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,822
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.40×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 31.7%
- Peak was 2005 (120)
- Years since peak
- 20
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 14.5% average annual change
Spellings of Liyah
Liyah is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 49.7% against Liyah's 0.11%.
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 Liyah is used
Across 2016–2025, Liyah was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 28,174 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 100,000).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in 12,500
- 2Virginia1 in 20,000
- 3New York1 in 25,000
- 4Texas1 in 25,000
- 5California1 in 33,333
- 6Georgia1 in 33,333
- 7South Carolina1 in 33,333
- 8Washington1 in 50,000
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.
Liyah around the world
Where Liyah 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 & Wales1996–2025#3,705in 2025
- France2001–2025#589in 2025
- Canada2003–2023#2,973in 2023
- South Australia2005–2005#775in 2005
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Liyah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Liyah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Liyah
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Liyah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Liyah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.