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Lya

#2,845 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Léa

Lya has been given to 971 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #2,845 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 64 recorded.

Babies named Lya, 2025

1 in 55,300

Lya over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lya: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Léa

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lya means

Lya is a variant of Léa.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Lya → Léa → לֵאָה. The family’s proposed meaning is “cow”, recorded in Hebrew with the source elements laʾay-at-.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Léa.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 971 girls were recorded with the name Lya between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 64 in 2019; its best national rank was #2,400 in 1968.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,918 in 2020 to #2,845 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,286 in 2015 to #2,845 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Lya?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 55,300
60 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 26,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,845
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
38,299 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lya 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 38,299 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lyas were born

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

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
41.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
971
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 41.1% of all recorded uses (399).

Is Lya 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
+67
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+73
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+441
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.20×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
93.8%
Peak was 2019 (64)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,400
1968

Where Lya is used

Across 2016–2025, Lya was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 22,044 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in 100,000).

17 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 14,286
  2. 2Florida1 in 16,667
  3. 3Arizona1 in 20,000
  4. 4California1 in 20,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 100,000
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 100,000
  8. 8New York1 in 100,000

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.

Lya around the world

Where Lya 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
    2011–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • France
    1928–2025
    #74
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2004–2024
    #889
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2011–2011
    #840
    in 2011

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.

Lya by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,845
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 73
Best rank ever
#2,400
1968
Peak year
2019
64 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
971
Count in 2025
60

Names similar to Lya

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

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Sibling names for Lya

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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