Meaning not yet researched.
Lia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,526 in 2025. Its best rank was #188 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #188 in 2024; #200 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#200 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #188.
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Lia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,526 girls in 2025. Peak: #188 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 1,610 (2024).
In 2025, 1,526 US girls were named Lia, making it the 200th most common girls’ name of the year, down 12 places from #188 in 2024. That is 84 fewer than the 1,610 girls named Lia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #188, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,610. For comparison, it was #330 in 2015 and #2,979 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lia in 81 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1933 with 7 babies. In all, 28,516 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 9,749 babies named Lia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 12,369 US girls were named Lia; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 1,610. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,053 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lia ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #103 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Lea (34,468 babies since 1880), Leia (18,778 babies since 1880), Liya (2,375 babies since 1880) and Laia (1,130 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Liyu, Lihi and Lija are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, Italian and Romanian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Liyu (97), Lihi (12), Lija (11).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Lia in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 11 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 71 | #103 | #141 |
| New Mexico | 13 | #106 | #206 |
| California | 252 | #118 | #274 |
| Florida | 145 | #123 | #255 |
| New York | 120 | #134 | #151 |
| Texas | 235 | #134 | #285 |
| Maryland | 34 | #140 | #368 |
| Nevada | 16 | #156 | #184 |
| Illinois | 60 | #166 | #230 |
| District of Columbia | 5 | #176 | #195 |
| Georgia | 58 | #178 | #397 |
| Colorado | 33 | #181 | #515 |
| Arizona | 34 | #201 | #353 |
| Connecticut | 17 | #202 | #190 |
| Rhode Island | 5 | #205 | #180 |
| Alabama | 22 | #209 | — |
| Oregon | 15 | #253 | #559 |
| North Carolina | 43 | #255 | #586 |
| Kansas | 12 | #275 | #697 |
| Virginia | 30 | #281 | #405 |
| Massachusetts | 21 | #281 | #194 |
| Indiana | 24 | #299 | #556 |
| Oklahoma | 14 | #303 | #452 |
| Washington | 24 | #308 | #624 |
| Iowa | 11 | #312 | #497 |
| Minnesota | 18 | #318 | #642 |
| Nebraska | 7 | #321 | — |
| South Carolina | 16 | #321 | #843 |
| Tennessee | 22 | #373 | #900 |
| Pennsylvania | 28 | #392 | #329 |
| Wisconsin | 13 | #408 | #500 |
| Mississippi | 7 | #420 | — |
| Utah | 10 | #428 | #441 |
| Kentucky | 10 | #433 | — |
| Idaho | 5 | #451 | #413 |
| Arkansas | 7 | #467 | #645 |
| Louisiana | 9 | #518 | #641 |
| Michigan | 15 | #533 | #611 |
| Missouri | 11 | #542 | #715 |
| Ohio | 18 | #580 | #647 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,526 | #200 | — | — |
| 2024 | 1,610 | #188 | — | — |
| 2023 | 1,430 | #210 | 5 | #13,390 |
| 2022 | 1,234 | #249 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,039 | #309 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,098 | #291 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,168 | #282 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,321 | #247 | — | — |
| 2017 | 954 | #337 | — | — |
| 2016 | 989 | #335 | — | — |
| 2015 | 996 | #330 | — | — |
| 2014 | 864 | #378 | — | — |
| 2013 | 811 | #383 | — | — |
| 2012 | 907 | #351 | — | — |
| 2011 | 847 | #378 | — | — |
| 2010 | 892 | #356 | — | — |
| 2009 | 868 | #370 | — | — |
| 2008 | 741 | #427 | — | — |
| 2007 | 590 | #529 | — | — |
| 2006 | 580 | #521 | — | — |
| 2005 | 516 | #556 | — | — |
| 2004 | 447 | #615 | — | — |
| 2003 | 397 | #666 | — | — |
| 2002 | 346 | #716 | — | — |
| 2001 | 313 | #765 | — | — |
| 2000 | 300 | #764 | — | — |
| 1999 | 233 | #908 | — | — |
| 1998 | 211 | #969 | — | — |
| 1997 | 218 | #917 | — | — |
| 1996 | 182 | #1,030 | 5 | #9,932 |
| 1995 | 202 | #937 | — | — |
| 1994 | 185 | #1,008 | — | — |
| 1993 | 166 | #1,092 | — | — |
| 1992 | 168 | #1,079 | — | — |
| 1991 | 185 | #1,007 | 5 | #9,061 |
| 1990 | 198 | #953 | — | — |
| 1989 | 200 | #912 | — | — |
| 1988 | 185 | #919 | — | — |
| 1987 | 174 | #943 | — | — |
| 1986 | 158 | #993 | — | — |
| 1985 | 168 | #936 | — | — |
| 1984 | 144 | #1,002 | — | — |
| 1983 | 155 | #952 | — | — |
| 1982 | 148 | #1,001 | — | — |
| 1981 | 140 | #1,029 | — | — |
| 1980 | 134 | #1,061 | — | — |
| 1979 | 97 | #1,297 | — | — |
| 1978 | 99 | #1,250 | — | — |
| 1977 | 121 | #1,075 | — | — |
| 1976 | 94 | #1,210 | — | — |
| 1975 | 89 | #1,260 | — | — |
| 1974 | 94 | #1,194 | — | — |
| 1973 | 89 | #1,207 | — | — |
| 1972 | 112 | #1,041 | — | — |
| 1971 | 157 | #859 | — | — |
| 1970 | 108 | #1,097 | — | — |
| 1969 | 116 | #1,004 | — | — |
| 1968 | 106 | #1,009 | — | — |
| 1967 | 93 | #1,084 | — | — |
| 1966 | 111 | #967 | — | — |
| 1965 | 103 | #1,029 | — | — |
| 1964 | 69 | #1,354 | — | — |
| 1963 | 60 | #1,442 | — | — |
| 1962 | 47 | #1,662 | — | — |
| 1961 | 41 | #1,796 | — | — |
| 1960 | 44 | #1,712 | — | — |
| 1959 | 41 | #1,732 | — | — |
| 1958 | 34 | #1,891 | — | — |
| 1957 | 39 | #1,737 | — | — |
| 1956 | 22 | #2,426 | — | — |
| 1955 | 36 | #1,758 | — | — |
| 1954 | 24 | #2,213 | — | — |
| 1953 | 24 | #2,157 | — | — |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,373 | — | — |
| 1951 | 20 | #2,289 | — | — |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,979 | — | — |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,767 | — | — |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,753 | — | — |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,576 | — | — |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,544 | — | — |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,610 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).