Liah
Liah was given to 169 girls in 2025, #1,322 among girls’ names; 2,711 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,690 Americans named Liah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Liah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Liah?
#1,322 among girls’ names, 2025
Liah rose from #1,762 in 2015 to #1,322 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.07 to 0.11 per 1,000.
181 babies in 2018, the peak
Liah peaked in 2018, when 181 girls were given it, #1,273 among girls’ names. The 169 births of 2025 are 93% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 169 | #1,322 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 170 | #1,347 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 170 | #1,335 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 177 | #1,333 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 157 | #1,396 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 140 | #1,522 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 171 | #1,337 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 181 | #1,273 | 0.11 |
| 2017 | 153 | #1,471 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 140 | #1,585 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 119 | #1,762 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 98 | #2,019 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 86 | #2,180 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 84 | #2,255 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 98 | #2,009 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 79 | #2,395 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 67 | #2,717 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,739 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 43 | #3,755 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 42 | #3,709 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 41 | #3,619 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 40 | #3,667 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 36 | #3,841 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 24 | #5,008 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,627 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,599 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,076 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,562 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,131 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,546 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,452 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,706 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,768 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,649 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,017 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,974 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,478 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,148 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Liah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Liah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Liah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Liah, and how old are they?
2,690 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,711 Americans ever recorded as Liah. The median Liah alive today is 9 years old; half are between 4 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 1,732 people named Liah (1,711 women and girls, 21 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,751 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 55 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 712 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,920 |
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 Liah born?
The states with the most babies named Liah are Texas, California and Florida, with 61% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 39 | #772 | 1.4× |
| California | 22 | #1,171 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 21 | #785 | 1.4× |
| New York | 15 | #1,007 | 1.3× |
| Arizona | 9 | #723 | 1.6× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,152 | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,369 | 0.2× |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,285 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,528 | 0.5× |
| Colorado | 5 | #996 | 0.1× |
Where Liah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Liah is most over-represented in Arizona: since 1979 it was given 1.6 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 Liah 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 337,014 babies since 1880, Liah is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 169 of their 12,503 babies (1.4%), the sixth 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 Liah
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 Liah and names like it
- Compare Liah and LilyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sLiah peaked in 2018.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Liah since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Liah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Liah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.