Liyah
Liyah was given to 38 girls in 2025, #3,873 among girls’ names; 2,200 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,180 Americans named Liyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 21.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Liyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Liyah?
#3,873 among girls’ names, 2025
Liyah fell from #2,051 in 2015 to #3,873 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 53.8 to 23.6 per million.
120 babies in 2005, the peak
Liyah peaked in 2005, when 120 girls were given it, #1,662 among girls’ names. The 38 births of 2025 are 32% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38 | #3,873 | 23.6 |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,087 | 22.2 |
| 2023 | 48 | #3,357 | 29.9 |
| 2022 | 57 | #2,948 | 34.8 |
| 2021 | 74 | #2,434 | 45.1 |
| 2020 | 59 | #2,806 | 36.5 |
| 2019 | 69 | #2,553 | 41.1 |
| 2018 | 86 | #2,183 | 50.6 |
| 2017 | 89 | #2,153 | 51.6 |
| 2016 | 68 | #2,609 | 38.4 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 96 | #2,051 | 53.8 |
| 2014 | 97 | #2,029 | 54.3 |
| 2013 | 99 | #1,984 | 56.4 |
| 2012 | 114 | #1,798 | 64.7 |
| 2011 | 88 | #2,167 | 50.0 |
| 2010 | 105 | #1,919 | 59.1 |
| 2009 | 97 | #2,097 | 52.8 |
| 2008 | 94 | #2,148 | 49.7 |
| 2007 | 98 | #2,079 | 51.0 |
| 2006 | 105 | #1,928 | 55.2 |
| 2005 | 120 | #1,662 | 64.9 |
| 2004 | 114 | #1,704 | 62.1 |
| 2003 | 79 | #2,193 | 43.2 |
| 2002 | 89 | #1,975 | 49.5 |
| 2001 | 48 | #2,990 | 26.7 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,600 | 11.0 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,132 | 11.8 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,730 | 13.0 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,353 | 8.6 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,587 | 8.0 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,834 | 9.1 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,319 | 13.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Liyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Liyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Liyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Liyah, and how old are they?
2,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,200 Americans ever recorded as Liyah. The median Liyah alive today is 15 years old; half are between 9 and 21.
The 2020 Census counted 1,667 people named Liyah (1,665 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,889 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 53 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,220 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 910 |
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 Liyah born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #3,601 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,353 | 1.2× |
Where Liyah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Liyah is most over-represented in Florida: since 1994 it was given 1.2 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 Liyah 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 146,534 babies since 1880, Liyah is the seventh most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 38 of their 5,867 babies (<1%), the eighth 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 Liyah
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 Liyah and names like it
- Compare Liyah and LilaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sLiyah peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Liyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Liyah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Liyah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.