Meaning not yet researched.
Liah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 169 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,273 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,273 in 2018; #1,322 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Liah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,322 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #1,273.
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Liah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 169 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,273 in 2018 · most girls in one year: 181 (2018).
In 2025, 169 US girls were named Liah, making it the 1,322nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 25 places from #1,347 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 170 girls named Liah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,273, reached in 2018. That year also had the most girls given the name: 181. For comparison, it was #1,762 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Liah in 38 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1979 with 5 babies. In all, 2,711 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,209 babies named Liah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,628 US girls were named Liah; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 181. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,510 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Liah ranked highest in Arizona in 2025, at #723 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Leah (256,954 babies since 1880), Leigh (45,349 babies since 1880), Lea (34,468 babies since 1880) and Lia (28,516 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Liah 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 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 9 | #723 | — |
| Texas | 39 | #772 | #1,592 |
| Florida | 21 | #785 | #1,585 |
| Colorado | 5 | #996 | — |
| New York | 15 | #1,007 | #1,108 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,152 | — |
| California | 22 | #1,171 | #929 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,285 | — |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,369 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,528 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 169 | #1,322 | — | — |
| 2024 | 170 | #1,347 | — | — |
| 2023 | 170 | #1,335 | — | — |
| 2022 | 177 | #1,333 | — | — |
| 2021 | 157 | #1,396 | — | — |
| 2020 | 140 | #1,522 | — | — |
| 2019 | 171 | #1,337 | — | — |
| 2018 | 181 | #1,273 | — | — |
| 2017 | 153 | #1,471 | — | — |
| 2016 | 140 | #1,585 | — | — |
| 2015 | 119 | #1,762 | — | — |
| 2014 | 98 | #2,019 | — | — |
| 2013 | 86 | #2,180 | — | — |
| 2012 | 84 | #2,255 | — | — |
| 2011 | 98 | #2,009 | — | — |
| 2010 | 79 | #2,395 | — | — |
| 2009 | 67 | #2,718 | — | — |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,739 | — | — |
| 2007 | 43 | #3,756 | — | — |
| 2006 | 42 | #3,710 | — | — |
| 2005 | 41 | #3,623 | — | — |
| 2004 | 40 | #3,671 | — | — |
| 2003 | 36 | #3,845 | — | — |
| 2002 | 24 | #5,012 | — | — |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,632 | — | — |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,604 | — | — |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,082 | — | — |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,567 | — | — |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,135 | — | — |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,551 | — | — |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,457 | — | — |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,712 | — | — |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,774 | — | — |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,656 | — | — |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,024 | — | — |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,981 | — | — |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,482 | — | — |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,151 | — | — |
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).