Liah

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Liah is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Indonesian given name2.5K records spelled Liah3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, United States, Philippines

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Li'Ah

• French given name1.3K records spelled Liah4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, Belgium, United States

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Lïah, Líah

• Arabic given name113 records spelled Liah3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Saudi Arabia, United States, United Arab Emirates, Malaysia

  Also written Liåh, Liăh

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Liah is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In cdo, a basket or hod for carrying earth, a shovel, (Iti-li)

  as a word·Dictionary of the Foochow Dialect

• In bnn, sword grass: Imperata cylindrica

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

• In bfg, nit, egg of a louse

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

• In wuu, Generally (speaking generally)

  as a word·A Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect

• In cdo, an euphonic prefix, to plow

  as a word·Dictionary of the Foochow Dialect

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 38 years between 1979–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Liah Greenfeldb. 1954USRussian-American Professor of Sociology
• Liah O'Preyb. 1999ESactress

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 267 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Liah?

We estimate roughly 3.0 thousand people bear Liah (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Liah have the most bearers?

We estimate about 1.7 thousand people bear Liah in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled liah.

How common is Liah compared with other names?

In Puerto Rico, Liah is the 285th most common given name of 2,536 given names recorded there.

Is Liah a male or female name?

Liah is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.