Lyah
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lyah 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.
- FRFrance1 in 32K◐
- GFFrench Guiana1 in 5.9K
- MQMartinique1 in 10K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.5K ●
- Sources
- 62 ●
- 1 in 32K ◐
across 4 countries
874 records
Official registry-verified
France
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 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 | — | 2,120△ | 590 rec. | 1 in 32K | 2.1K | Lyah | 51 |
| US United States | — | 268 | 183 rec. | 1 in 1.2M | 268 | Lyah | 62 |
| BE Belgium | — | 142 | 21 rec. | — | 7 | Lyah | 5 |
| BR Brazil | — | 121 | 0 rec. | 1 in 1.7M | 121 | Lyah | 2 |
| MQ Martinique | #845 | 65 | 0 rec. | — | 5 | Lyah | 1 |
| GP Guadeloupe | #928 | 60 | 0 rec. | — | 5 | Lyah | 1 |
| CA Canada | — | 27 | 2 rec. | — | 5 | Lyah | 5 |
| PR Puerto Rico | #451 | 26 | 1 rec. | — | 5 | Lyah | 2 |
| GF French Guiana | #281 | 25 | 0 rec. | — | 5 | Lyah | 1 |
| PH Philippines | — | 19 | 8 rec. | — | — | Lyah | 6 |
| DE Germany | — | 15 | 15 rec. | — | 1 | Lyah | 8 |
| AT Austria | — | 13 | 0 rec. | — | 4 | Lyah | 3 |
Roughly 2.1K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 32K). 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●
- French8K82%
- Portuguese7688%
- English4384%
- Spanish2312%
- Dutch1311%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 8,028 | 82% |
| Portuguese | 768 | 8% |
| English | 438 | 4% |
| Spanish | 231 | 2% |
| Dutch | 131 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 6 |
| 2003 | 6 |
| 2004 | 11 |
| 2005 | 14 |
| 2006 | 8 |
| 2007 | 9 |
| 2008 | 17 |
| 2009 | 9 |
| 2010 | 15 |
| 2011 | 16 |
| 2012 | 28 |
| 2013 | 20 |
| 2014 | 15 |
| 2015 | 19 |
| 2016 | 20 |
| 2017 | 21 |
| 2018 | 33 |
| 2019 | 20 |
| 2020 | 16 |
| 2021 | 14 |
| 2022 | 16 |
| 2023 | 15 |
| 2024 | 10 |
| 2025 | 13 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 24 years between 1999–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Evidence●
Attested in 26 sources across 20 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 159 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Lyah?
- We estimate roughly 2.5 thousand people bear Lyah (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Lyah have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 2.1 thousand people bear Lyah in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled lyah.
- How common is Lyah compared with other names?
- In French Guiana, Lyah is the 281st most common given name of 922 given names recorded there.
- Is Lyah a male or female name?
- Lyah 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
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, “Lyah” — the 281st most common given name in French Guiana. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.