Liah Girl
How popular is Liah?
#1,318 girl name in 2025
169 baby girls were named Liah in the US in 2025, making it the 1318th most popular girl name.
Liah popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #1,318 for girls (▲ 23 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 169 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising (+42% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,758 in 2015, #1,518 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2018 (181 girls) |
| Highest rank | #1,271 in 2018 |
| First recorded | 1979 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Liah counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Lia family of names ranked #193 for girls in 2025 (#184 the year before), with 1,768 babies in all.
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Liah is most popular
Babies named Liah per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Arizona: 0.3 per 1,000 (38 girls)
- Texas: 0.2 per 1,000 (168 girls)
- Florida: 0.2 per 1,000 (89 girls)
- New York: 0.2 per 1,000 (63 girls)
- New Jersey: 0.2 per 1,000 (28 girls)
Liah by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #10,208 |
| 1980s | 10 | #10,514 |
| 1990s | 98 | #5,006 |
| 2000s | 406 | #2,704 |
| 2010s | 1,209 | #1,271 |
| 2020s | 983 | #1,318 |
Girl names about as popular as Liah
Questions
- Is Liah a boy or girl name?
- Liah is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Liah were girls.
- How popular is the name Liah?
- 169 baby girls were named Liah in the US in 2025, making it the 1318th most popular girl name.
- When was Liah most popular?
- Liah peaked in 2018, when 181 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #1,271 in 2018.
- How many people are named Liah?
- 2,711 babies have been named Liah in the US since 1880. We estimate about 2,696 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 9.
- Where is Liah most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Liah was most common in Arizona, at 0.3 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.