Ligia

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Lygia in NL Netherlands, DE Germany, PH Philippines and 3 more and Λυγια in CY Cyprus.

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●

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◐

Ligia is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name142K records spelled Ligia11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, Venezuela, United States, Ecuador

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Lígia, Ligía, Li̓gia, Lìgia

• Polish given name4.7K records spelled Ligia2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, United States, United Kingdom, Spain

  Also written Lígia

• a separate given name4.3K records spelled Ligia3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Romania, Ecuador

  Also written Lígia, Ligía

• Romanian given name2.4K records spelled Ligia2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Romania, Spain, Italy

  Also written Lígia

• Danish given name671 records spelled Ligia11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Norway, Denmark, Sweden

  Languages: Danish, Norwegian, Norwegian Bokmål

  Also written Lygia, Lígia

• Lao given name557 records spelled Ligia12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Laos, United States, Tanzania, Spain

  Languages: Lao, Thai

  Also written Lukia, ลิเกี้ย, Likia, ลิเกีย, ลเกย

47 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●

Ligia is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• Spanish and Portuguese: of uncertain origin, apparently a shortened form of Eligia , the feminine version of ELIGIO (see also ELOY and ELOI ).

  as a word

• In Italian, sea slater (Ligia oceanica)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Romansh, league

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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●

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 115 years between 1900–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Ligia Braniceb. 1932PLPolish actress
• Ligia Gargallob. 1933CLPeruvian-Chilean researcher
• Ligia Krajewskab. 1949PLPolish politician and deputy
• Ligia Amadiob. 1964BRBrazilian conductor
• Ligia Pirob. 1970ARArgentinian singer and actor
• Lígia Silvab. 1981BRBrazilian table tennis player
• Ligia Petitb. 1981VEVenezuelan model and actress
• Ligia Decab. 1982ROMinister of Education of Romania since 2022
• Ligia Moreirab. 1992ECEcuadorian association football player
• Lígia Costab. 1996BRBrazilian handball player

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 · 486 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ligia?

We estimate roughly 71 thousand people bear Ligia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Ligia have the most bearers?

Ligia is most frequently recorded in Venezuela, where it is most often spelled ligia.

Where is Ligia most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ligia is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 783 people — even though Venezuela holds more of our records for it.

How common is Ligia compared with other names?

In Venezuela, Ligia is the 224th most common given name of 213,120 given names recorded there.

Is Ligia a male or female name?

Ligia 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.

What does the name Ligia mean?

Recorded meaning: Griego, de ligys 'de sonido claro, agudo': 'la melodiosa'.