Lia

Where Lia comes from

Lia hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1932
    Lia Manoliu born
    Romanian athletics competitor
  2. 1933
    First appearance
    #3,406 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 2005
    Lia McHugh born
    American actress
  4. 2024
    Peak, #188
    1,610 babies named Lia — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Lia Manoliu · Romanian athletics competitor, 1932–1998
  • Lia McHugh · American actress, born 2005
  • Lia Quartapelle · Italian politician, born 1982
  • Lia van Leer · Israeli film archive pioneer, 1924–2015
  • Lia Neal · American swimmer, Olympic athlete, world champion, born 1995

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.