Lïa
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lïa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Israel it is the 18th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Latin Līa, itself from Hebrew לֵאָה (Le'a).
- BRBrazil1 in 9K(measured from records)
- GEGeorgia1 in 169as ლია
- ILIsrael≈1 in 385as לאה
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lïa itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #599 (measured from records)
- 9 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 570 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
200,964 named Leah, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Leah in US United States, GB United Kingdom, PH Philippines, Lia in GE Georgia, BR Brazil, FI Finland, לאה in IL Israel, RO Romania and Lía in EC Ecuador.
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)
- LatinLīa(measured from records)
- HebrewלֵאָהLe'a(measured from records)
From Latin Līa, itself from Hebrew לֵאָה (Le'a).
Sources 9
- A concise dictionary of first names
- African Names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
- Russian Names
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lïa 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 | #377 | 200,964as Leah | 1 in 1.7K | 201K | Leah | 570 |
| PH Philippines | #174 | ≈91,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 53K | Leah | 155 |
| RO Romania | #76 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 671 | — | לאה | 30 |
| GB United Kingdom | #322 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | 480 | Leah | 307 |
| BR Brazil | — | 23,649 | 1 in 9K | 24K | Lia | 154 |
| GE Georgia | #33 | 23,613as ლია | 1 in 169 | 24K | Lia | 64 |
| IL Israel | #18 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 385 | 1.1K | לאה | 86 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 12,927 | 1 in 1.3K | 13K | Lía | 36 |
| FI Finland | — | 11,049as Lea | 1 in 504 | 20K | Lia | 15 |
| HR Croatia | — | 5,344as Lea | 1 in 791 | 7.3K | — | 1 |
200,964 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; CBS Israel — Names given to babies (1949–present); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INEC — civil registry names; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lïa mean, and where does it come from?
- From Latin Līa, itself from Hebrew לֵאָה (Le'a). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and African Names and 7 other sources.
- Is Lïa a male or female name?
- Lïa 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 Lïa have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 201 thousand people named Leah, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Lïa most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lïa is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 1.3 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lïa?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 23,649 people named Lïa in 2022, about 1 in 9.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Lïa compared with other names?
- In the United States, Lïa is the 377th most common given name of 2,815,431 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, “Lïa” — the 377th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.