Lieja
surname · Spanish · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lieja is a surname, most frequently recorded in Belgium. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Liège (a town and province of Belgium).
- BEBelgium1 in 663◐
- BRBrazil1 in 70K
- NLNetherlands1 in 128K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3.0K ●
- Sources
- 87 ●
- 1 in 70K ◐
across 1 country
1.9K records
Official registry-verified
Brazil
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Liege in BE Belgium, US United States, FR France and 7 more, Liége in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, Luik in NL Netherlands and Liège in CA Canada.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Liège (a town and province of Belgium)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BE Belgium | 13,249 | 41 rec. | — | 3 | Liege | 8 |
| BR Brazil | 3,017△ | 847 rec. | 1 in 70K | 3.4K | Liége | 87 |
| US United States | 306 | 390 rec. | — | listed | Liege | 49 |
| NL Netherlands | 298 | 194 rec. | — | 429 | Luik | 32 |
| MX Mexico | 188 | 132 rec. | — | — | Lieja | 18 |
| CA Canada | 26 | 10 rec. | — | — | Liège | 5 |
| FR France | 24 | 1 rec. | — | 88 | Liege | 2 |
| DE Germany | 20 | 22 rec. | — | listed | Liege | 17 |
| ES Spain | 19 | 11 rec. | — | — | Liege | 3 |
| PT Portugal | 18 | 3 rec. | — | — | Liege | 5 |
| IT Italy | 10 | 3 rec. | — | — | Liege | 2 |
| AR Argentina | 9 | 15 rec. | — | 2 | Liége | 7 |
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Languages●
- Spanish20343%
- English8518%
- Hindi368%
- 337%
- Swahili225%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Spanish | 203 | 43% |
| English | 85 | 18% |
| Hindi | 36 | 8% |
| 33 | 7% | |
| Swahili | 22 | 5% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Evidence●
Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 1986 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1948 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1940 | 1 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 1 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 4 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Lieja?
- We estimate roughly 3.0 thousand people bear Lieja (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
- In which country does Lieja have the most bearers?
- Lieja is most frequently recorded in Belgium, where it is most often spelled liege.
- What does the name Lieja mean?
- Recorded meaning: Liège (a town and province of Belgium)
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lieja”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.