Ligia

given name · Latin script

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

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

/lixia/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Ligia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Mozambique it is the 42nd most common given name.

rarermore common
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 783(measured from records)
  • NINicaragua≈1 in 827
  • ECEcuador1 in 1.2K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

43,301 people, 2022

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
259 (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)

LigiaLatin(measured from records)
ΛυγιαGreek(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ligia 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 Ligia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#49243,3011 in 4.9K49KLigia169
CO Colombia#274≈26,000 est.≈1 in 1.9K16Ligia104
VE Venezuela#22221,0981 in 1.4K21KLigia44
EC Ecuador#26213,6031 in 1.2K14KLigia39
NI Nicaragua#71≈7,500 est.≈1 in 827—Ligia28
CR Costa Rica#526,5101 in 7836.5KLigia55
MZ Mozambique#42≈1,800 est.≈1 in 17K—Ligia11

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); asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); the co-datosgov-candidates register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; INEC — civil registry names. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Ligia is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Lígia, Ligía, Li̓gia, Lìgia

  • Polish given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, United Kingdom, Romania

    Also written Lígia

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Ligía, Lígia

  • Romanian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, United States, Spain, Italy

    Also written Lígia

  • Norwegian given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Denmark, Sweden, Norway

    Languages: Norwegian, Danish, Swedish

    Also written Lígia

  • Lao given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, United States, Tanzania, Thailand

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Lukia, Likia, ลิเกี้ย, ลิเกีย, Ligía

47 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Ligia is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Spanish and Portuguese: of uncertain origin, apparently a shortened form of Eligia , the feminine version of ELIGIO (see also ELOY and ELOI ).

    as a word

  • In Italian, sea slater (Ligia oceanica)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Romansh, league

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)

19201940196019802000Ligia Branice, b. 1932Ligia Gargallo, b. 1933Ligia Krajewska, b. 1949Ligia Amadio, b. 1964Ligia Piro, b. 1970Lígia Silva, b. 1981Ligia Petit, b. 1981Ligia Deca, b. 1982Ligia Moreira, b. 1992Lígia Costa, b. 1996

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)

InformalHola Ligia,Hi Ligia, (English)

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 56 sources across 30 countries.

Official registers attesting Ligia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—49K#796
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—49K#299
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202243K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—43K#624
VE Venezuelaasosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996)—21K#72
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202414K#150
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—6.5K#110
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020352—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—141#624
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—16#105
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)20244—
CR Costa RicaTSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration)———

Reference works 5

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 Ligia?
A machine transcription gives /lixia/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Ligia have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 43 thousand people named Ligia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ligia.
Where is Ligia most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ligia is densest in Costa Rica — about 1 in 783 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
What does the name Ligia mean?
Recorded meaning: Griego, de ligys 'de sonido claro, agudo': 'la melodiosa'.
Is Ligia a male or female name?
Ligia 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 Ligia?
In the etymology graph, Lygia and Ligeia are forms of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Ligia?
In Brazil, the national register counted 43,301 people named Ligia in 2022, about 1 in 4.9 thousand residents.
How common is Ligia compared with other names?
In Brazil, Ligia is the 492nd most common given name of 474,894 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, “Ligia” — the 492nd most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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