Lia
About 28,516 American babies have been named Lia since 1933, most of them around 2024. In 2025 it ranked 200th. About 28,000 Lias are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 11.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Lia boys named Lia
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 28,516
- Estimated living today
- 28,000
- Median age today
- 11
- Peak year
- 2024
- Best rank
- 188th
- Rank in 2025
- 200th
- First recorded
- 1933
- Girls / boys
- 28,501 / 15
How old the living Lias are
born that year still alive today
Of the 28,516 babies given the name since 1933, about 28,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 19,000 of them are children and 280 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2014 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Lias
- Lia Manoliu (1932–1998)Romanian athletics competitor
- Lia McHugh (born 2005)American actress
- Lia Quartapelle (born 1982)Italian politician
- Lia (born 2000)South Korean singer, born 2000
- Lia van Leer (1924–2015)Israeli film archive pioneer
- Lia Wälti (born 1993)Swiss association footballer
- Lia Neal (born 1995)American swimmer, Olympic athlete, world champion
- Lia Vissi (born 1955)Greek-Cypriot singer
People named Lia with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lia is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lia is most concentrated in Nevada (2.5×), Hawaii (2.4×), Florida (2.1×), New Jersey (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2024
The most popular girls’ names the year Lia peaked:
Lia elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain girls | Lia | 6,996 | 41st |
| France girls | Lia +1 spelling | 6,555 | 187th |
| Switzerland girls | Lia +1 spelling | 5,027 | 8th |
| Italy girls | Lia | 3,024 | — |
| England and Wales girls | Lia | 2,821 | 283rd |
| Belgium girls | Lia | 1,405 | 68th |
| Austria girls | Lia | 987 | 28th |
| Ireland girls | Lia +1 spelling | 554 | 177th |
| Poland girls | Lia +1 spelling | 403 birth registrations | 181st |
| Scotland girls | Lia | 361 | 144th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Lia | 35 | 226th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Lia: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Lia | 4,322 | 0.347% | 3rd |
| German girls | Switzerland | Lía | 5 | 0.000% | 1,271st |
| French girls | Switzerland | Lia | 494 | 0.114% | 51st |
| French girls | Switzerland | Lía | 15 | 0.003% | 517th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Lia | 174 | 0.267% | 15th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Lía | 2 | 0.003% | 191st |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Lia | 15 | 0.403% | 1st |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Lia is most concentrated in Thurgau, where 0.46% of children were given it – 262 of them.
Lia: rank by region
In 2025, Lia was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Lia | 64 | 72 |
| Wallonia | Lia | 105 | 24 |
In 2021, Lia was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Lia | 6 | 3 |
In 2025, Lia was given 2 times or more in 12 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Lia | 138 | 6 |
| Lubelskie | Lia | 147 | 2 |
| Łódzkie | Lia | 188 | 2 |
| Małopolskie | Lia | 194 | 3 |
| Mazowieckie | Lia | 217 | 5 |
| Opolskie | Lia | 95 | 3 |
| Podkarpackie | Lia | 158 | 2 |
| Pomorskie | Lía | 209 | 2 |
| Pomorskie | Lia | 209 | 2 |
| Śląskie | Lia | 174 | 5 |
| Wielkopolskie | Lia | 139 | 7 |
| Zachodniopomorskie | Lia | 131 | 4 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Lia appears in the lists for Province of Limburg (34th), Province of Flemish Brabant (37th), Province of Liège (70th), Province of East Flanders (78th), Province of West Flanders (86th), Province of Antwerp (89th) and Province of Hainaut (117th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Lia by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 642 | 24th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Lia among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Lia +1 spelling | 403 | 531 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Lia lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 9,954 women called Lia were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pontevedra | Lia | 680 | 1.386 | 138 |
| Coruña, A | Lia | 751 | 1.271 | 142 |
| Girona | Lia | 456 | 1.101 | 151 |
| Lugo | Lia | 139 | 0.828 | 189 |
| Ourense | Lia | 128 | 0.807 | 204 |
| Barcelona | Lia | 2,395 | 0.787 | 194 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Lia against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.