Līga
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Nošu raksta grafiska zīme pusloka veidā, kas saista vienāda augstuma notis vai norāda, ka dažāda augstuma notis jāizpilda saistīti (legato)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Līga is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country.
- LVLatvia1 in 183(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 35K
- NONorway≈1 in 92K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Latvia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 100 (measured from records)
- 1 in 183 (inferred from the name graph)
10,255 people
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Liga in US United States, DE Germany.
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)
Nošu raksta grafiska zīme pusloka veidā, kas saista vienāda augstuma notis vai norāda, ka dažāda augstuma notis jāizpilda saistīti (legato)
Sources 1
- Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Līga 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | 10,255 | 1 in 183 | 10K | Līga | 34 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 241K | — | Līga | 47 |
| US United States | 186 | 1 in 1.8M | 238 | Liga | 100 |
| DE Germany | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 524K | — | Liga | 54 |
| SE Sweden | 77 | 1 in 133K | 77 | — | 6 |
| NO Norway | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 92K | 292 | — | 3 |
| DK Denmark | 53 | 1 in 111K | 53 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 10 | 1 in 35K | 10 | — | — |
10,255 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Līga is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Garuma mērvienība (gk. Lielbritānijā un ASV), vienāda ar 3 jūdzēm, t. i. 5,56 km (jūras līga) vai 4,83 km (sauszemes līga)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Valstu, organizāciju vai personu apvienība ar kopīgu mērķi un uzdevumiem
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Graudzāļu dzimtas stepes un tuksneša augs; kaviļa
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Komandu grupa atkarībā no to meistarības
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Līgupe, Abavas pieteka Kandavas pagastā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Līga Liepiņab. 1946LVLatvian actress
- Līga Purmaleb. 1948LVLatvian artist (born 1948)
- Līga Skrideb. 1956LVmusician
- Līga Kozlovskab. 1957LVLatvian researcher and politician
- Līga Meņģelsoneb. 1972LVLatvian politician
- Līga Kļaviņab. 1980LVathletics competitor
- Līga Dekmeijereb. 1983LVLatvian tennis player
- Līga Glāzereb. 1986LVLatvian biathlete
- Līga Velvereb. 1990LVLatvian female middle-distance runner
- Līga Šurkusab. 1991LVLatvian basketball player (born 1991)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
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 7 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 10K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 10K | #32 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Līga a male or female name?
- Līga 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 does the name Līga mean?
- Recorded meaning: Nošu raksta grafiska zīme pusloka veidā, kas saista vienāda augstuma notis vai norāda, ka dažāda augstuma notis jāizpilda saistīti (legato)
- What are other forms of the name Līga?
- In the etymology graph, Ligita is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Līga have the most bearers?
- In Latvia, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Līga, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled līga.
- Where is Līga most common?
- Līga is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 183 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Līga?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 10,255 people named Līga, about 1 in 183 residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/l%C4%ABgaThe 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, “Līga”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.