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Girl's name · #1344 in the US (2025) · Trending
Liya is climbing: on the charts since 1992, it reached #1344 in 2025 — its strongest showing yet, with about 170 girls given the name last year. Roughly 2,400 have carried it all-time.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 11 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#220 in Austria (2025) · #272 in Netherlands (2025) · #283 in Sweden (2025) · #284 in Belgium (2025) · #284 in Switzerland (2025) · #339 in Poland (2025) · #368 in France (2025) · #616 in England & Wales (2025) · #800 in Canada (2024).
Among 41 notable people named Liya:
Entertainers appear 2.2× more often than among typical names — e.g. Liya Kebede, Ethiopian model and actress (born 1978).
Together with its spelling variants Lia (#200) and Liah (#1322), Liya would rank around #158 with about 1,900 births last year — the newborns split about 82/9/9 across Lia, Liah, and Liya.
Similar names: Leya · Amariah · Leen · Sia · Emaan · Jiya
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