Lia
Lia was given to 1,526 girls in 2025, #200 among girls’ names; 28,516 Americans have been recorded with it since 1933 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 28,000 Americans named Lia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lia mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Lia is “a female given name”
From Latin Līa, itself from Hebrew לֵאָה (Le’a).
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lia?
#200 among girls’ names, 2025
Lia rose from #330 in 2015 to #200 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.56 to 0.95 per 1,000.
1,610 babies in 2024, the peak
Lia peaked in 2024, when 1,610 girls were given it, #188 among girls’ names. The 1,526 births of 2025 are 95% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,526 | #200 | 0.95 |
| 2024 | 1,610 | #188 | 1.0 |
| 2023 | 1,430 | #210 | 0.89 |
| 2022 | 1,234 | #249 | 0.75 |
| 2021 | 1,039 | #309 | 0.63 |
| 2020 | 1,098 | #291 | 0.68 |
| 2019 | 1,168 | #282 | 0.70 |
| 2018 | 1,321 | #247 | 0.78 |
| 2017 | 954 | #337 | 0.55 |
| 2016 | 989 | #335 | 0.56 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 996 | #330 | 0.56 |
| 2014 | 864 | #378 | 0.48 |
| 2013 | 811 | #383 | 0.46 |
| 2012 | 907 | #351 | 0.52 |
| 2011 | 847 | #378 | 0.48 |
| 2010 | 892 | #356 | 0.50 |
| 2009 | 868 | #370 | 0.47 |
| 2008 | 741 | #427 | 0.39 |
| 2007 | 590 | #529 | 0.31 |
| 2006 | 580 | #521 | 0.31 |
| 2005 | 516 | #556 | 0.28 |
| 2004 | 447 | #615 | 0.24 |
| 2003 | 397 | #666 | 0.22 |
| 2002 | 346 | #716 | 0.19 |
| 2001 | 313 | #765 | 0.17 |
| 2000 | 300 | #764 | 0.17 |
| 1999 | 233 | #906 | 0.13 |
| 1998 | 211 | #968 | 0.12 |
| 1997 | 218 | #916 | 0.13 |
| 1996 | 182 | #1,028 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 202 | #934 | 0.11 |
| 1994 | 185 | #1,007 | 0.10 |
| 1993 | 166 | #1,090 | 0.09 |
| 1992 | 168 | #1,077 | 0.09 |
| 1991 | 185 | #1,004 | 0.10 |
| 1990 | 198 | #951 | 0.10 |
| 1989 | 200 | #909 | 0.11 |
| 1988 | 185 | #919 | 0.10 |
| 1987 | 174 | #943 | 0.10 |
| 1986 | 158 | #993 | 0.09 |
| 1985 | 168 | #936 | 0.10 |
| 1984 | 144 | #1,002 | 0.09 |
| 1983 | 155 | #952 | 0.09 |
| 1982 | 148 | #1,001 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 140 | #1,029 | 0.08 |
| 1980 | 134 | #1,061 | 0.08 |
| 1979 | 97 | #1,297 | 0.06 |
| 1978 | 99 | #1,250 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 121 | #1,075 | 0.08 |
| 1976 | 94 | #1,210 | 0.06 |
| 1975 | 89 | #1,260 | 0.06 |
| 1974 | 94 | #1,194 | 0.06 |
| 1973 | 89 | #1,207 | 0.06 |
| 1972 | 112 | #1,041 | 0.07 |
| 1971 | 157 | #859 | 0.09 |
| 1970 | 108 | #1,097 | 0.06 |
| 1969 | 116 | #1,004 | 0.07 |
| 1968 | 106 | #1,009 | 0.06 |
| 1967 | 93 | #1,084 | 0.06 |
| 1966 | 111 | #967 | 0.07 |
| 1965 | 103 | #1,029 | 0.06 |
| 1964 | 69 | #1,354 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 60 | #1,442 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 47 | #1,661 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 41 | #1,795 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 44 | #1,711 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 41 | #1,731 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 34 | #1,890 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 39 | #1,736 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 22 | #2,425 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 36 | #1,757 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 24 | #2,212 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 24 | #2,156 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,372 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 20 | #2,288 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,978 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,766 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,751 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,574 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,542 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,609 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lia has been given almost only to girls: 15 boys in 81 years of records.
Girls and boys named Lia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lia, and how old are they?
28,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 28,516 Americans ever recorded as Lia. The median Lia alive today is 12 years old; half are between 6 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 22,644 people named Lia (22,414 women and girls, 230 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 20,518 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 6 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 458 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,600 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,690 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 8,330 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 15,000 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Lia born?
The states with the most babies named Lia are California, Texas and Florida, with 42% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 252 | #118 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 235 | #134 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 145 | #123 | 1.2× |
| New York | 120 | #134 | 1.6× |
| New Jersey | 71 | #103 | 1.8× |
| Illinois | 60 | #166 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 58 | #178 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 43 | #255 | 0.6× |
| Arizona | 34 | #201 | 0.9× |
| Maryland | 34 | #140 | 0.8× |
Where Lia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lia is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1933 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Lia with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 391,439 babies since 1880, Lia is the fourth most given (7.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,526 of their 15,096 babies (10%), the fifth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lia
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Lia and names like it
- Compare Lia and LilyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLia peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lia since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Lia: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Lia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Lia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.