Liya
Liya was given to 165 girls in 2025, #1,344 among girls’ names; 2,375 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,360 Americans named Liya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Liya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Liya?
#1,344 among girls’ names, 2025
Liya rose from #2,148 in 2015 to #1,344 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.05 to 0.10 per 1,000.
165 babies in 2025, the peak
Liya peaked in 2025, when 165 girls were given it, #1,344 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 132 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 165 | #1,344 | 0.10 |
| 2024 | 132 | #1,595 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 111 | #1,823 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 148 | #1,482 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 139 | #1,520 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 120 | #1,701 | 0.07 |
| 2019 | 100 | #1,956 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 116 | #1,769 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 99 | #1,999 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 103 | #1,951 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 89 | #2,148 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 97 | #2,028 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 118 | #1,749 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 98 | #1,991 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 96 | #2,037 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 85 | #2,270 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 85 | #2,303 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 91 | #2,199 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 65 | #2,809 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 67 | #2,690 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 48 | #3,237 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 45 | #3,365 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 43 | #3,393 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,449 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,171 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,328 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,977 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,989 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,110 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,551 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,775 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,254 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,749 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,039 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Liya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Liya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Liya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Liya, and how old are they?
2,360 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,375 Americans ever recorded as Liya. The median Liya alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 2,772 people named Liya (2,757 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,579 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 35 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 795 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,530 |
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 Liya born?
The states with the most babies named Liya are California, Texas and New York, with 50% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 36 | #820 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 14 | #1,679 | 0.8× |
| New York | 12 | #1,206 | 1.7× |
| Virginia | 12 | #637 | 2.2× |
| Florida | 10 | #1,390 | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 9 | #814 | 0.6× |
| Washington | 8 | #782 | 1.3× |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,299 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,343 | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #839 | 0.1× |
Where Liya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Liya is most over-represented in Virginia: since 1992 it was given 2.2 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 Liya 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 389,952 babies since 1880, Liya is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 165 of their 15,200 babies (1.1%), the seventh 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 Liya
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 Liya and names like it
- Compare Liya and LilyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLiya peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Liya since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Liya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Liya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.