Liya
#1,341 for girls in 2025, 165 births
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 165 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,375since 1992
Liya over time
Rank among girls' names. Liya has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,341 | 165 |
| 2024 | #1,591 | 132 |
| 2023 | #1,813 | 111 |
| 2022 | #1,478 | 148 |
| 2021 | #1,516 | 139 |
| 2020 | #1,698 | 120 |
| 2019 | #1,949 | 100 |
| 2018 | #1,762 | 116 |
| 2017 | #1,989 | 99 |
| 2016 | #1,942 | 103 |
| 2015 | #2,138 | 89 |
| 2014 | #2,027 | 97 |
| 2013 | #1,744 | 118 |
| 2012 | #1,983 | 98 |
| 2011 | #2,026 | 96 |
| 2010 | #2,258 | 85 |
| 2009 | #2,286 | 85 |
| 2008 | #2,184 | 91 |
| 2007 | #2,787 | 65 |
| 2006 | #2,669 | 67 |
| 2005 | #3,212 | 48 |
| 2004 | #3,333 | 45 |
| 2003 | #3,347 | 43 |
| 2002 | #4,381 | 28 |
| 2001 | #6,956 | 15 |
| 2000 | #8,027 | 12 |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 |
| 1998 | #8,584 | 10 |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 |
| 1996 | #8,132 | 10 |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Liya! It came in at #9,491, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1993–1995, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
Where Liya is popular in 2023
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#1,014 · 1 in 5,554
- Illinois#1,432 · 1 in 8,911
- California#1,476 · 1 in 10,306
- Georgia#1,539 · 1 in 9,075
- Florida#1,559 · 1 in 10,634
Best ever in a state: #602 in Virginia, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #1,014 | 14 | 1 in 5,554 |
| Illinois | #1,432 | 5 | 1 in 8,911 |
| California | #1,476 | 16 | 1 in 10,306 |
| Georgia | #1,539 | 5 | 1 in 9,075 |
| Florida | #1,559 | 8 | 1 in 10,634 |
| Texas | #1,591 | 15 | 1 in 10,810 |
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See more about Liya
- 250 spots since 2024 (#1,591 → #1,341)
- 357 spots since 2020 (#1,698 → #1,341)
- 797 spots since 2015 (#2,138 → #1,341)
- Debuted 1992
- Peaked 2025 at #1,341 (165 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 9,741 girls born in 2025 were named Liya (0.01%)
- 42.1% of all girls named Liya (1,001) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 60 | #8,132 (1996) | #10,643 |
| 2000s | 499 | #2,184 (2008) | #3,918 |
| 2010s | 1,001 | #1,744 (2013) | #1,982 |
| 2020s | 815 | #1,341 (2025) | #1,573 |
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.
Liya in 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 14,456 of them was named Liya, which outranked 89.7% 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).
- #1,802Kelsie112
- #1,802Luana112
- #1,802Taya112
- #1,813Liya111
- #1,813Akari111
- #1,813Avril111
- #1,813Blayke111
- #1,826Amiah110
- #1,826Dayanna110
- #1,826Ela110
Tied with 12 names at #1,813; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.