Liah
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʎɪə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Liah is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 192K(measured from records)
- PAPanama≈1 in 35K
- SESweden1 in 97K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 191 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
1,732 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Panama, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Liah 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,732 | 1 in 192K | 1.7K | Liah | 191 |
| BR Brazil | 880 | 1 in 241K | 880 | Liah | 43 |
| PH Philippines | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 248K | — | Liah | 33 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 106K | — | Liah | 17 |
| ES Spain | 193 | 1 in 259K | 193 | — | 7 |
| ZM Zambia | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 132K | — | Liah | 4 |
| PA Panama | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Liah | 7 |
| SE Sweden | 105 | 1 in 97K | 105 | Liah | 6 |
| DK Denmark | 46 | 1 in 128K | 46 | — | 3 |
1,732 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Liah 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 cdo, a basket or hod for carrying earth, a shovel, (Iti-li)
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In bnn, sword grass: Imperata cylindrica
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In bfg, nit, egg of a louse
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In wuu, Generally (speaking generally)
as a wordA Vocabulary of the Shanghai Dialect
In cdo, an euphonic prefix, to plow
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
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)
- Liah Greenfeldb. 1954USRussian-American Professor of Sociology
- Liah O'Preyb. 1999ESactress
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 45 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.7K | #8,385 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 880 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 869 | #9,023 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 373 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 193 | #9,281 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 169 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 143 | #5,256 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 105 | #8,245 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 86 | #24,594 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 75 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 61 | #44,533 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 46 | #2,739 |
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
- How do you pronounce Liah?
- A machine transcription gives /ʎɪə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Liah a male or female name?
- Liah 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 Liah have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Liah, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled liah.
- How common is the name Liah?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,732 people named Liah in 2020, about 1 in 192 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Liah?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/liahThe 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, “Liah”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.