Lia
For 2025 the count puts Lia at #200 nationwide, with the curve still pointing up. First recorded 1933, best year 2024, 28,501 bearers across the whole run.
What Lia carries
Lia · Hebrew
“dependence”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Lia’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Lia, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Lia since 1933
Lia peaked in 2024 at #188; #200 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Lia is most common
The state that gives Lia most often, per girls born there, is New Mexico (0.28% in 2025); District of Columbia and Rhode Island are close behind.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Lia
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Leah
#58 in 2025 · Hebrew
Noa
#226 in 2025 · Hebrew
Zara
#212 in 2025 · Hebrew
Elise
#223 in 2025 · Hebrew
Judah
#178 in 2025 · Hebrew
Simon
#230 in 2025 · Hebrew
Abel
#231 in 2025 · Hebrew
Jude
#155 in 2025 · Hebrew
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About Lia
How common is Lia today?
For 2025 the count puts Lia at #200 nationwide, with the curve still pointing up. The full curve since 1933 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What does Lia mean?
The gloss on record reads “dependence”, of Hebrew origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
What names go with Lia?
The recipe puts Leah first, then Zara, on shared origin, a peak within fifteen years, matching syllables and a shared first letter. Run the sibling matcher with your own names for a list scored against them.
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