Lia

#200 for girls in 2025, 1,526 births · Last seen for boys in 2023 at #12,239
Given to girls 99.9% of the time

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Peak · girls
2024 · 1,610 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
28,501
since 1933

Lia over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Lia has never cracked the top 100 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201933girlsat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#2001,526—
2024#1881,610—
2023#2101,430#12,2395
2022#2481,234—
2021#3081,039—
2020#2911,098—
2019#2821,168—
2018#2471,321—
2017#337954—
2016#335989—
2015#328996—
2014#378864—
2013#383811—
2012#351907—
2011#378847—
2010#356892—
2009#370868—
2008#427741—
2007#529590—
2006#521580—
2005#556516—
2004#615447—
2003#666397—
2002#716346—
2001#763313—
2000#762300—
1999#905233—
1998#968211—
1997#915218—
1996#1,028182#9,0155
1995#935202—
1994#1,004185—
1993#1,089166—
1992#1,076168—
1991#1,006185#8,2365
1990#950198—
1989#908200—
1988#918185—
1987#941174—
1986#992158—
1985#933168—
1984#1,002144—
1983#950155—
1982#994148—
1981#1,025140—
1980#1,059134—
1979#1,29497—
1978#1,24899—
1977#1,075121—
1976#1,20694—
1975#1,25889—
1974#1,18594—
1973#1,20089—
1972#1,038112—
1971#859157—
1970#1,093108—
1969#1,003116—
1968#1,008106—
1967#1,08193—
1966#966111—
1965#1,025103—
1964#1,34969—
1963#1,43560—
1962#1,65147—
1961#1,78841—
1960#1,69544—
1959#1,72041—
1958#1,87234—
1957#1,72839—
1956#2,38922—
1955#1,73336—
1954#2,18624—
1953#2,12224—
1952#2,32720—
1951#2,24520—
1950#2,90913—
1949#3,6129—
1948#3,5939—
1947#4,3457—
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First appearance
1933

The first year at least five girls were named Lia! It came in at #3,406, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1934–1944, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Lia is popular in 1933

No state had 5 or more girls named Lia in 1933, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Lia
Momentum · girls
Rising
  • 12 spots since 2024 (#188 → #200)
  • 91 spots since 2020 (#291 → #200)
  • 128 spots since 2015 (#328 → #200)
  • Biggest jump: 234 spots in 1971 (#1,093 → #859)
  • Biggest drop: 179 spots in 1972 (#859 → #1,038)
Rise & fade · girls
91 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1933
  • Peaked 2024 at #188 (1,610 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 40 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 40 yrs · run 1997–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 1,006
  • Highest: 1 in 1,006 girls born in 2024 were named Lia (0.10%)
  • Latest: 1 in 1,053 girls born in 2025 (0.09%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 34.2% of all girls named Lia (9,749) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1930s7#3,406 (1933)#3,406
1940s33#3,388 (1945)#3,735
1950s273#1,720 (1959)#2,123
1960s790#966 (1966)#1,300
1970s1,060#859 (1971)#1,146
1980s1,606#908 (1989)#972
1990s1,948#905 (1999)#988
2000s5,098#370 (2009)#593
2010s9,749#247 (2018)#338
2020s7,937#188 (2024)#241

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Lia in 1933

girls
#3,406
7 births · 1 in 143,990 girls

Top girls' names in 1933

  1. #1Mary55,517
  2. #2Betty31,531
  3. #3Barbara26,949
  4. #4Dorothy22,054
  5. #5Joan19,294
  6. #6Patricia18,632
  7. #7Margaret15,241
  8. #8Helen14,644
  9. #9Shirley14,320
  10. #10Doris12,025
  11. #3,406Lia7
More about 1933

girls

1,007,932 girls got a published name in 1933; 1 in 143,990 of them was named Lia, which outranked 29.9% of the 4,858 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Lia
  1. #3,109Zara8
  2. #3,109Zell8
  3. #3,109Zonia8
  4. #3,406Lia7
  5. #3,406Adelfa7
  6. #3,406Alaine7
  7. #3,406Alan7
  8. #3,753Adalene6
  9. #3,753Adelita6
  10. #3,753Adria6

Tied with 346 names at #3,406; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1932
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,022Rheta#1,754 → #732
  2. ↑ 930Joellen#1,877 → #947
  3. ↑ 583Veola#1,568 → #985
  4. ↑ 483Sharlene#1,162 → #679
  5. ↑ 475Louetta#1,448 → #973
Fallers
  1. ↓ 395Golda#969 → #1,364
  2. ↓ 322Louis#940 → #1,262
  3. ↓ 298Bebe#899 → #1,197
  4. ↓ 291Clyde#998 → #1,289
  5. ↓ 291Mariam#998 → #1,289

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1933 →