Lias

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Lias is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

• English52%

  A type of blue limestone present in parts of southern England and Wales.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Spanish22%

  second-person singular voseo present indicative of liar

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• Malay11%

  No dictionary in our sources glosses Lias in Malay.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

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

• Spanish surname6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Mexico, United States, Venezuela, Argentina

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Lías, Lia'S

• English surname3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom

  Languages: English, German

  Also written Lia'S

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Lías

• Norwegian surname5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Malaysia

  Languages: Norwegian, Danish

  Also written Lías

• French surname3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States

  Also written ́lias

• Estonian surname3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Finland

  Languages: Estonian, Finnish

  Also written Lías

42 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.

Lias is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Swedish, Lias är en kortform av → Elias. Det har blivit populärt det senaste årtiondet.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In zlm, charm to secure invulnerability by diverting magically any weapon or projectile that may be aimed at you

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

• In Latin, second-person singular present active indicative of līō

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Galician, second-person singular imperfect indicative of ler

  as a word·kaikki.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.

• Ruth Liasb. 1926EEEstonian translator and physicist (1926-2023)
• Pärt Liasb. 1940EEEstonian literary scholar and semiotician (1940-2006)

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).

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Lias mean, and where does it come from?

A type of blue limestone present in parts of southern England and Wales. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

What are other forms of the name Lias?

In the etymology graph, Helias, Illés and Eliasz are forms of the same name in other languages.

How do you pronounce Lias?

It depends on the language: in English /ˈliəs/ (Wiktionary); in Spanish /ʎjas/; in Malay /lias/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.

In which country does Lias have the most bearers?

In the United States, the national register counted about 925 people named Lias, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lias.

Where is Lias most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lias is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 35 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is the name Lias?

In the United States, the national register counted 925 people named Lias in 2010, about 1 in 360 thousand residents.