Lya
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lya is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. It appears chiefly in French and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Variante gráfica de Lía.
- FRFrance1 in 4.5K◐
- BRBrazil1 in 153K
- USUnited States1 in 439K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈18K ●
- Sources
- 134 ●
- 1 in 4.5K ◐
across 8 countries
11K records
Official registry-verified
France
Meaning & origin●
Variante gráfica de Lía.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 19 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | #915 | 15,165△ | 5.9K rec. | 1 in 4.5K | 15K | Lya | 134 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,383 | 0 rec. | 1 in 153K | 1.4K | Lya | 3 |
| BE Belgium | — | 902 | 220 rec. | — | 65 | Lya | 10 |
| US United States | — | 757 | 2.8K rec. | 1 in 439K | 757 | Lya | 133 |
| ES Spain | — | 635△ | 42 rec. | 1 in 79K | 635 | Lya | 11 |
| CA Canada | — | 569 | 98 rec. | — | 31 | Lya | 19 |
| DE Germany | — | 292 | 296 rec. | — | 1 | Lya | 44 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 210 | 212 rec. | — | — | Lya | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 184 | 173 rec. | — | listed | Lya | 32 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 176 | 202 rec. | — | — | Lya | 21 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 147 | 93 rec. | 1 in 118K | 147 | Lya | 15 |
| AT Austria | — | 146 | 16 rec. | — | 41 | Lya | 10 |
Roughly 15K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 4.5K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- French55K61%
- Portuguese14K16%
- Spanish8.2K9%
- English5.6K6%
- Indonesian1.8K2%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 54,989 | 61% |
| Portuguese | 14,486 | 16% |
| Spanish | 8,162 | 9% |
| English | 5,627 | 6% |
| Indonesian | 1,822 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Lya 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.
Lyson, Lysons v. Lleision M
as a nameWelsh Surnames
In Swedish, a lair, a den, a sett; a hole in the ground for a fox, wolf or badger
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-3 language code for Layakha.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, to warm up, give off warmth
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ttj, class 5 indefinite of -a
as a wordkaikki.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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1920 | 1 |
| 1923 | 3 |
| 1926 | 1 |
| 1927 | 6 |
| 1928 | 4 |
| 1929 | 6 |
| 1930 | 7 |
| 1931 | 2 |
| 1932 | 2 |
| 1933 | 3 |
| 1934 | 5 |
| 1935 | 1 |
| 1936 | 4 |
| 1937 | 3 |
| 1938 | 2 |
| 1939 | 5 |
| 1940 | 4 |
| 1941 | 3 |
| 1942 | 4 |
| 1943 | 1 |
| 1944 | 3 |
| 1945 | 2 |
| 1946 | 3 |
| 1947 | 5 |
| 1948 | 4 |
| 1949 | 3 |
| 1950 | 4 |
| 1951 | 5 |
| 1952 | 2 |
| 1953 | 3 |
| 1954 | 3 |
| 1955 | 5 |
| 1956 | 4 |
| 1957 | 5 |
| 1958 | 7 |
| 1959 | 7 |
| 1960 | 2 |
| 1961 | 4 |
| 1962 | 6 |
| 1963 | 7 |
| 1964 | 6 |
| 1965 | 4 |
| 1966 | 5 |
| 1967 | 5 |
| 1968 | 3 |
| 1969 | 5 |
| 1970 | 1 |
| 1971 | 5 |
| 1972 | 6 |
| 1973 | 5 |
| 1974 | 2 |
| 1975 | 4 |
| 1976 | 3 |
| 1977 | 7 |
| 1978 | 3 |
| 1979 | 5 |
| 1980 | 5 |
| 1981 | 6 |
| 1982 | 7 |
| 1983 | 6 |
| 1984 | 5 |
| 1985 | 6 |
| 1986 | 9 |
| 1987 | 5 |
| 1988 | 10 |
| 1989 | 4 |
| 1990 | 8 |
| 1991 | 13 |
| 1992 | 6 |
| 1993 | 10 |
| 1994 | 11 |
| 1995 | 7 |
| 1996 | 8 |
| 1997 | 8 |
| 1998 | 11 |
| 1999 | 7 |
| 2000 | 6 |
| 2001 | 5 |
| 2002 | 10 |
| 2003 | 6 |
| 2004 | 7 |
| 2005 | 4 |
| 2006 | 5 |
| 2007 | 20 |
| 2008 | 8 |
| 2009 | 14 |
| 2010 | 18 |
| 2011 | 17 |
| 2012 | 14 |
| 2013 | 23 |
| 2014 | 24 |
| 2015 | 26 |
| 2016 | 26 |
| 2017 | 20 |
| 2018 | 19 |
| 2019 | 29 |
| 2020 | 37 |
| 2021 | 46 |
CL SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) — 98 years between 1920–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Lya Bergerb. 1877FRFrench writer (1877–1941)
- Lya Marab. 1893LVstar of the German silent cinema (1897-1960)
- Lia Eibenschützb. 1899DEnot in their usual nameGerman actress (1899-1985)
- Lya Leyb. 1899DEGerman actress (1899–1992)
- Lya Lysb. 1908USAmerican actress (1908-1986)
- Lya Ímber de Coronilb. 1914UAfirst female physician in Venezuela (1914-1981)
- Lya De Barberiisb. 1919ITItalian pianist
- Lya Luftb. 1938BRBrazilian writer (1938–2021)
- Lya Sternb. 1950USAmerican violinist
- Ana Lya Uriarteb. 1962CLChilean politician and environment law expert
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●
Attested in 59 sources across 37 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 15K | #45 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 1.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.4K | #6,632 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 757 | #15,229 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 635 | #3,890 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 502 | #14,267 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 452 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 446 | #2,312 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 147 | #4,372 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 95 | #8,274 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 69 | #2,068 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2024 | 65 | #130 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 · 448 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Lya?
- We estimate roughly 18 thousand people bear Lya (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Lya have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 15 thousand people bear Lya in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled lya.
- How common is Lya compared with other names?
- In France, Lya is the 915th most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.
- Is Lya a male or female name?
- Lya 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 Lya mean?
- Recorded meaning: Variante gráfica de Lía.
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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, “Lya” — the 915th most common given name in France. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.