Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Liya is a given name, most frequently recorded in Israel, where it is the 18th most common given name. It appears chiefly in French and Turkish, written in the Latin script.
rarermore common
GEGeorgia1 in 169◐
ILIsrael1 in 194
FRFrance1 in 325
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
Locally spelled Liain BR Brazil, GE Georgia, FR France and 9 more, Leahin US United States, PH Philippines, GB United Kingdom and 6 more, לאהin IL Israel, PL Poland, LB Lebanon and 1 more and Riain EG Egypt, MY Malaysia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Related names1 related name◐
In other writing systems
1
The same name, another script
Liya
Relations come from the etymology graph; the language, country and size beside each name are how that name is actually used in the corpus. Click any name to open it.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
French15K25%
Turkish9.3K15%
English7K11%
Hindi5.5K9%
Indonesian4K7%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
Name
Records
Note
French
15,304
25%
Turkish
9,251
15%
English
6,982
11%
Hindi
5,549
9%
Indonesian
4,043
7%
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◐
Liya is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.
Turkish given name9.6K records spelled Liya5 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Türkiye, Azerbaijan, Netherlands, Syria
Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen
Also written Liýa, Liyâ
Hindi given name8.0K records spelled Liya3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United States, Nigeria
Languages: Hindi, Urdu
Also written Li-Ya
Indonesian given name5.3K records spelled Liya5 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, India, United States
Languages: Indonesian, Malay
Also written 'Liya, Lïyâ, Lįÿā
Russian given name4.1K records spelled Liya156 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Russia, Croatia, Ukraine, Poland
Languages: Russian, Croatian, Ukrainian
Also written Лия, Lea, Лія, Лея, Лиа
a separate given name1.3K records spelled Liya2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Ethiopia, India, United States, China
Also written Li-Ya
Amharic given name857 records spelled Liya3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Ethiopia, United States, Sweden, India
Also written ሊያ, Liyaa
35 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●
Liya is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Filipino, pond scum
as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In dag, darkness
as a word·Dagbani Dictionary CD
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●
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Liya in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1992–2025
Year
records
1992
8
1993
6
1994
7
1995
5
1996
10
1997
5
1998
10
1999
9
2000
12
2001
15
2002
28
2003
43
2004
45
2005
48
2006
67
2007
65
2008
91
2009
85
2010
85
2011
96
2012
98
2013
118
2014
97
2015
89
2016
103
2017
99
2018
116
2019
100
2020
120
2021
139
2022
148
2023
111
2024
132
2025
165
USSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 34 years between 1992–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
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).
Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 387 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
How common is the name Liya?
We estimate roughly 499 thousand people bear Liya (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Liya have the most bearers?
Liya is most frequently recorded in Israel, where it is most often spelled לאה.
Where is Liya most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Liya is densest in Georgia — about 1 in 169 people — even though Israel holds more of our records for it.
How common is Liya compared with other names?
In Israel, Liya is the 18th most common given name of 97,862 given names recorded there.
Is Liya a male or female name?
Liya 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.
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About this data
● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated
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 pageMondonomo, “Liya” — the 18th most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.