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
- Peak · girls
- 2024 · 1,610 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 28,501since 1933
Lia over time
Rank among girls' names. Lia has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #200 | 1,526 | — | |
| 2024 | #188 | 1,610 | — | |
| 2023 | #210 | 1,430 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | #248 | 1,234 | — | |
| 2021 | #308 | 1,039 | — | |
| 2020 | #291 | 1,098 | — | |
| 2019 | #282 | 1,168 | — | |
| 2018 | #247 | 1,321 | — | |
| 2017 | #337 | 954 | — | |
| 2016 | #335 | 989 | — | |
| 2015 | #328 | 996 | — | |
| 2014 | #378 | 864 | — | |
| 2013 | #383 | 811 | — | |
| 2012 | #351 | 907 | — | |
| 2011 | #378 | 847 | — | |
| 2010 | #356 | 892 | — | |
| 2009 | #370 | 868 | — | |
| 2008 | #427 | 741 | — | |
| 2007 | #529 | 590 | — | |
| 2006 | #521 | 580 | — | |
| 2005 | #556 | 516 | — | |
| 2004 | #615 | 447 | — | |
| 2003 | #666 | 397 | — | |
| 2002 | #716 | 346 | — | |
| 2001 | #763 | 313 | — | |
| 2000 | #762 | 300 | — | |
| 1999 | #905 | 233 | — | |
| 1998 | #968 | 211 | — | |
| 1997 | #915 | 218 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,028 | 182 | #9,015 | 5 |
| 1995 | #935 | 202 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,004 | 185 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,089 | 166 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,076 | 168 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,006 | 185 | #8,236 | 5 |
| 1990 | #950 | 198 | — | |
| 1989 | #908 | 200 | — | |
| 1988 | #918 | 185 | — | |
| 1987 | #941 | 174 | — | |
| 1986 | #992 | 158 | — | |
| 1985 | #933 | 168 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,002 | 144 | — | |
| 1983 | #950 | 155 | — | |
| 1982 | #994 | 148 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,025 | 140 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,059 | 134 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,294 | 97 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,248 | 99 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,075 | 121 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,206 | 94 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,258 | 89 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,185 | 94 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,200 | 89 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,038 | 112 | — | |
| 1971 | #859 | 157 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,093 | 108 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,003 | 116 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,008 | 106 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,081 | 93 | — | |
| 1966 | #966 | 111 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,025 | 103 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,349 | 69 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,435 | 60 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,651 | 47 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,788 | 41 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,695 | 44 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,720 | 41 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,872 | 34 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,728 | 39 | — | |
| 1956 | #2,389 | 22 | — | |
| 1955 | #1,733 | 36 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,186 | 24 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,122 | 24 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,327 | 20 | — | |
| 1951 | #2,245 | 20 | — | |
| 1950 | #2,909 | 13 | — | |
| 1949 | #3,612 | 9 | — | |
| 1948 | #3,593 | 9 | — | |
| 1947 | #4,345 | 7 | — | |
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| 1945 | #3,388 | 8 | — | |
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| 1933 | #3,406 | 7 | — | |
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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.
See more about Lia
- 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)
- Debuted 1933
- Peaked 2024 at #188 (1,610 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 40 yrs · run 1997–2025
- 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%)
- 34.2% of all girls named Lia (9,749) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 7 | #3,406 (1933) | #3,406 |
| 1940s | 33 | #3,388 (1945) | #3,735 |
| 1950s | 273 | #1,720 (1959) | #2,123 |
| 1960s | 790 | #966 (1966) | #1,300 |
| 1970s | 1,060 | #859 (1971) | #1,146 |
| 1980s | 1,606 | #908 (1989) | #972 |
| 1990s | 1,948 | #905 (1999) | #988 |
| 2000s | 5,098 | #370 (2009) | #593 |
| 2010s | 9,749 | #247 (2018) | #338 |
| 2020s | 7,937 | #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 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 1,122 of them was named Lia, which outranked 98.8% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 342,115 of them was named Lia, which outranked 13.9% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,976 names at #12,239; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.