Lliam
Lliam was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,272 among boys’ names; 491 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lliam by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lliam?
#10,272 among boys’ names, 2025
Lliam fell from #4,244 in 2015 to #10,272 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 12.5 to 4.1 per million.
41 babies in 2013, the peak
Lliam peaked in 2013, when 41 boys were given it, #2,825 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,272 | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 19 | #5,177 | 11.0 |
| 2023 | 15 | #6,100 | 8.8 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,548 | 6.3 |
| 2021 | 16 | #5,686 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 16 | #5,595 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 19 | #5,072 | 10.6 |
| 2018 | 23 | #4,432 | 12.7 |
| 2017 | 21 | #4,677 | 11.3 |
| 2016 | 18 | #5,240 | 9.5 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #4,244 | 12.5 |
| 2014 | 30 | #3,579 | 15.6 |
| 2013 | 41 | #2,825 | 21.7 |
| 2012 | 34 | #3,275 | 17.9 |
| 2011 | 30 | #3,565 | 15.8 |
| 2010 | 24 | #4,185 | 12.5 |
| 2009 | 32 | #3,443 | 16.1 |
| 2008 | 17 | #5,390 | 8.3 |
| 2007 | 14 | #6,135 | 6.7 |
| 2006 | 16 | #5,440 | 7.8 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,445 | 5.0 |
| 2004 | 14 | #5,672 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,596 | 4.6 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,762 | 2.6 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,265 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,752 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,928 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,183 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Lliam a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lliam has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lliam: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lliam, and how old are they?
An estimated 486 Americans named Lliam and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 406 people named Lliam (7 women and girls, 399 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 407 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
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).
How common is the spelling Lliam?
Lliam is a less common spelling of Liam: SSA has recorded 491 Lliam and 359,085 Liam since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 362,615 babies since 1880, Lliam is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 21,085 babies (<1%), 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 Lliam
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 Lliam and names like it
- Compare Lliam and LiamBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sLliam peaked in 2013.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lliam since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Lliam.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Lliam alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.