Liia
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: SURS, 2025
Liia is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Slovenia it is the 93rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: Variant of Lii, from Eliisabet, short form of Julia, Cecilia and similar names, and a romanisation of Russian Ли́я (Líja, “Leah”). Liia is also written Лия in Cyrillic.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 1.7Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 2.7M
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 10Mfew records
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 Liia itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 167 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
200,964 named Leah, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Liia in other scripts: Cyrillic and Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled Lea in HR Croatia, SI Slovenia, EE Estonia, Лия in RU Russia, FI Finland and Leah in US United States.
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)Variant of Lii, from Eliisabet, short form of Julia, Cecilia and similar names, and a romanisation of Russian Ли́я (Líja, “Leah”).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Liia 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 | — | 200,964as Leah | 1 in 1.7K | 201K | Leah | 90 |
| RU Russia | #250 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 6K | register #148 | Лия | 167 |
| BR Brazil | — | 23,649as Lia | 1 in 9K | 24K | — | — |
| EC Ecuador | — | 12,927as Lia | 1 in 1.3K | 13K | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | — | 11,049as Lea | 1 in 504 | 20K | Лия | 5 |
| DK Denmark | — | 7,041as Lea | 1 in 834 | 7K | — | 1 |
| HR Croatia | #214 | 5,344as Lea | 1 in 791 | 7.3K | Lea | 92 |
| NO Norway | — | 5,191as Leah | 1 in 1.1K | 16K | — | 3 |
| SI Slovenia | #93 | 3,857as Lea | 1 in 545 | 3.9K | Lea | 54 |
| EE Estonia | #754 | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 2K | Lea | 11 |
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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INEC — civil registry names; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Liia Leetmaab. 1924EEEstonian ballet dancer and dance teacher (1924-2004)
- Liia Einastob. 1929EEEstonian mathematician (1929-2003)
- Liia Hännib. 1946EEEstonian politician and astrophysicist (born 1946)
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)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Liia mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Lii, from Eliisabet, short form of Julia, Cecilia and similar names, and a romanisation of Russian Ли́я (Líja, “Leah”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Is Liia a male or female name?
- Liia is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Estonia (Statistics Estonia), Finland (DVV) and Poland (dane.gov.pl).
- Which countries have the most people named Liia?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 201 thousand people named Leah, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Russia, Brazil, Ecuador and Finland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Liia?
- In the United States, the national register counted 200,964 people named Leah in 2020, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Liia compared with other names?
- In Slovenia, Liia is the 93rd most common given name of 4,300 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Liia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/liiaThe 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, “Liia” — ranked 275th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.