# Lia (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/lia/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 28,516 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 15 / 28,501 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 2,821, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 847 | 378 |
| 2012 | 907 | 351 |
| 2013 | 811 | 383 |
| 2014 | 864 | 378 |
| 2015 | 996 | 330 |
| 2016 | 989 | 335 |
| 2017 | 954 | 337 |
| 2018 | 1,321 | 247 |
| 2019 | 1,168 | 282 |
| 2020 | 1,098 | 291 |
| 2021 | 1,039 | 309 |
| 2022 | 1,234 | 249 |
| 2023 | 1,430 | 210 |
| 2024 | 1,610 | 188 |
| 2025 | 1,526 | 200 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 5 | 9,061 |
| 1996 | 5 | 9,932 |
| 2023 | 5 | 13,390 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 84 | 502 |
| 2012 | 62 | 663 |
| 2013 | 73 | 561 |
| 2014 | 92 | 468 |
| 2015 | 77 | 564 |
| 2016 | 76 | 553 |
| 2017 | 114 | 391 |
| 2018 | 84 | 507 |
| 2019 | 96 | 439 |
| 2020 | 108 | 399 |
| 2021 | 118 | 383 |
| 2022 | 96 | 442 |
| 2023 | 114 | 366 |
| 2024 | 81 | 491 |
| 2025 | 93 | 434 |

## People named Lia

- Lia McHugh, American actress (born 2005)
- Lia Neal, American swimmer, Olympic athlete, world champion
- Lia Boysen, actress
- Lia Williams, British actress
- Lia Thomas, American swimmer
- Lia Marie Johnson, American YouTuber, singer and actress
- Lia Eliava, Georgian actress (1934-1998)
- Cornelia Melis, Aruban long-distance runner
- Lia Finocchiaro, Australian politician
- Lia van Schie, Dutch speed skater
- Lia Laats, Estonian actress (1926-2004)
- Noemí Lapzeson, Argentinian dancer and choreographer (1940-2018)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.