Across the world, Lija (Лия 
, Lija 
, Lij 
) is a common predominantly female, but scarcely male first name. The first name Lija is habitual in Russia, where it is quite a common girly name, Kazakhstan, where it is quite a rare female name, and Kyrgyzstan. Measured by absolute frequency, the name is most common in Russia, India, and Bangladesh. Very seldom, Lija is the last name as well as the forename.
| VARIANT | COUNTRY |
|---|---|
| Лия | Kazakhstan, Bulgaria, Belarus, Russia, Kyrgyzstan |
| Lija | Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia |
| Lij | India, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia |
| Lixa | Portugal, Brazil, India, Honduras, Saudi Arabia |
Lija is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Leah , the Biblical matriarch, Genesis 35; Looker , the DC Comics character; Lia Turtle , the fictional human in Chaos&Evolutions; Leah Clearwater , character in Twilight and Leah Estrogen , the secondary character of the 2001 film Osmosis Jones, among other works.
| lija böhmerová holocaust victim, b. 1916-12-09, CZ (b. 1916) |
|
|
| lija brīdaka Latvian poet (1932–2022), LV (b. 1932) |
|
|
| lija michajlovna rozenbljum (b. 1922) |
|
|
| lija aleksandrovna deribas (b. 1926) |
|
|
|
lija laizāne cyclist, LV (b. 1993) |
|
| lija fischer Finnish director and dramaturge, FI |
|
|
| lija kucherova chess player (b. 1986) |
|
|
| lija benewolskaja |
|
|
| lija vardic |
|
|
| lija emmelin verneli SI |
|
Mol, Barik, Patra, Panda, Rajan, Jacob, James, Nayak, Islam, Mathew, Mallik, Akther, Behera, Biswal, Parida, George, Joseph, Thomas, Mohanty, Pradhan, Maharana, Varghese, Akter, Mahapatra, Aktar, Sethy, Raj, Das, Joy, Sahu, Bhoi, Khan, Raju, Raut, Devi, Dash, Jose, John, Jena, Naik, Malik, Majhi, Samal, Sahoo, Singh, Silva, Sethi, Swain, and Puthan Veedu John