Ligía

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Ligía is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 57K(measured from records)
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 783
  • ECEcuador1 in 1.2K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

43,301 people, 2022

Sources
234 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 783 (inferred from the name graph)

Costa Rica

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ligia in BR Brazil, US United States, EC Ecuador and 1 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in Spanish

Griego, de ligys 'de sonido claro, agudo': 'la melodiosa'.

Sources 1

  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ligía counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Ligía is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—43,3011 in 4.9K49KLigia7
VE Venezuela—21,0981 in 1.4K21K—3
EC Ecuador—13,6031 in 1.2K14KLigia17
CR Costa Rica—6,5101 in 7836.5K——
US United States—5,8401 in 57K5.8KLigia234
UY Uruguay—2951 in 11K295——
JM Jamaica#703———Ligia2

43,301 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); INEC — civil registry names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Ligía under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

Is Ligía a male or female name?
Ligía is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Ligía have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 43 thousand people named Ligía, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ligia.
Where is Ligía most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ligía is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 783 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Ligía?
In Brazil, the national register counted 43,301 people named Ligía in 2022, about 1 in 4.9 thousand residents.
How common is Ligía compared with other names?
In Jamaica, Ligía is the 703rd most common given name of 21,568 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ligía” — the 703rd most common given name in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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