Ligeia
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Melodiosa / Docile
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/lɪdʒiə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ligeia is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- UYUruguay
- COColombia
- CLChile
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 22 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Melodiosa / Docile
Sources 1
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ligeia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012). 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1974 | 5 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1975 | 4 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1988 | 1 | — |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 1999 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1985 | 1 | — |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 1997 | 1 | — |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 1984 | 1 | — |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 1967 | 1 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Ligeia?
- A machine transcription gives /lɪdʒiə/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Ligeia mean, and where does it come from?
- Melodiosa / Docile Recorded by Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,….
- Is Ligeia a male or female name?
- Ligeia 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.
- What are other forms of the name Ligeia?
- In the etymology graph, Ligia, Lygia and Lígia are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Ligeia have the most bearers?
- Ligeia is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled ligeia.
What do you want to know about Ligeia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ligeiaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Ligeia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.