Lieja
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Liège (a town and province of Belgium)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Lieja is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 3.9Mas Liege(measured from records)
- INIndia≈1 in 4M
- FRFrance≈1 in 143Kas Liege
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 Lieja 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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 83 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.0M (inferred from the name graph)
≈480 named Liege, est.
Highest-authority source
India, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Liege in US United States, FR France, PT Portugal and 2 more, Liège in BE Belgium, NL Netherlands and Liége in BR Brazil.
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)
Liège (a town and province of Belgium)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lieja 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 143K | 88 | Liege | 3 |
| IN India | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 4M | — | Liege | 1 |
| BR Brazil | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 7M | 3.4K | Liége | 83 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 827K | — | Liège | 3 |
| US United States | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 17M | — | Liege | 58 |
| ES Spain | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 3.7M | — | Liege | 3 |
| PT Portugal | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | — | Liege | 5 |
| BE Belgium | 3as Liege | 1 in 3.9M | 3 | Liège | 5 |
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 — Nomes (census name API); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 Lieja mean, and where does it come from?
- Liège (a town and province of Belgium) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Lieja have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 476 people named Liege in France, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Lieja?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 3 people named Liege in 2008, about 1 in 3.9 million residents.
What do you want to know about Lieja?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/liejaThe 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, “Lieja”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.