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Liyah

The girl's name Liyah has been in the national records since 1994, with 2,200 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 3,832nd. About 2,200 Liyahs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Liyah

By the numbers

Total US births
2,200
Estimated living today
2,200
Median age today
14
Peak year
2005
Best rank
1,657th
Rank in 2025
3,832nd
First recorded
1994

How old the living Liyahs are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,200 babies given the name since 1994, about 2,200 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 1,400 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 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.

Where Liyah is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Liyah is most concentrated in Florida (4.2×), Texas (2.9×), California (2.4×), New York (1.7×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2005

The most popular girls’ names the year Liyah peaked:

All the names of 2005

Liyah elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France girls Liyah +1 spelling 1,945 219th
England and Wales girls Liyah 226 998th
Belgium girls Liyah 116 445th
Switzerland girls Liyah 92 420th

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.

Liyah: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German girls Switzerland Liyah 68 0.005% 334th
French girls Switzerland Liyah 24 0.006% 269th

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.

Liyah: rank by region

In 2024, Liyah was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Liyah 592 8
Wallonia Liyah 378 7

In 2024, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Liyah appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (260th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 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.

Liyah by city

CityYears BirthsBest rank
Berlin girls 2017–2023 69 166th

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Related names

Liyah against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.