Liah
#1,318 for girls in 2025, 169 births
- Peak · girls
- 2018 · 181 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,711since 1979
Liah over time
Rank among girls' names. Liah has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,318 | 169 |
| 2024 | #1,341 | 170 |
| 2023 | #1,330 | 170 |
| 2022 | #1,325 | 177 |
| 2021 | #1,392 | 157 |
| 2020 | #1,518 | 140 |
| 2019 | #1,332 | 171 |
| 2018 | #1,271 | 181 |
| 2017 | #1,465 | 153 |
| 2016 | #1,580 | 140 |
| 2015 | #1,758 | 119 |
| 2014 | #2,010 | 98 |
| 2013 | #2,173 | 86 |
| 2012 | #2,232 | 84 |
| 2011 | #2,000 | 98 |
| 2010 | #2,386 | 79 |
| 2009 | #2,705 | 67 |
| 2008 | #2,718 | 67 |
| 2007 | #3,721 | 43 |
| 2006 | #3,669 | 42 |
| 2005 | #3,587 | 41 |
| 2004 | #3,631 | 40 |
| 2003 | #3,805 | 36 |
| 2002 | #4,906 | 24 |
| 2001 | #4,564 | 26 |
| 2000 | #5,491 | 20 |
| 1999 | #5,896 | 17 |
| 1998 | #6,360 | 15 |
| 1997 | #5,010 | 20 |
| 1996 | #8,132 | 10 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 |
| 1991 | #8,588 | 9 |
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| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 |
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| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 |
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| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Liah! It came in at #10,210, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1979–1990, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Liah is popular in 2019
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#744 · 1 in 3,859
- New Jersey#820 · 1 in 4,389
- Virginia#861 · 1 in 4,411
- California#891 · 1 in 5,273
- Arizona#914 · 1 in 4,770
Best ever in a state: #564 in Oregon, 2017.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #744 | 22 | 1 in 3,859 |
| New Jersey | #820 | 8 | 1 in 4,389 |
| Virginia | #861 | 8 | 1 in 4,411 |
| California | #891 | 35 | 1 in 5,273 |
| Arizona | #914 | 6 | 1 in 4,770 |
| Texas | #996 | 27 | 1 in 5,872 |
| Florida | #1,007 | 14 | 1 in 6,042 |
| North Carolina | #1,417 | 5 | 1 in 8,980 |
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See more about Liah
- 23 spots since 2024 (#1,341 → #1,318)
- 200 spots since 2020 (#1,518 → #1,318)
- 440 spots since 2015 (#1,758 → #1,318)
- Debuted 1979
- Peaked 2018 at #1,271 (181 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 9,266 girls born in 2022 were named Liah (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 9,510 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,271 in 2018, was only 1 in 9,398 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 44.6% of all girls named Liah (1,209) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #10,210 (1979) | #10,210 |
| 1980s | 10 | #10,517 (1982) | #11,158 |
| 1990s | 98 | #5,010 (1997) | #8,780 |
| 2000s | 406 | #2,705 (2009) | #3,880 |
| 2010s | 1,209 | #1,271 (2018) | #1,821 |
| 2020s | 983 | #1,318 (2025) | #1,371 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Liah in 2019
Top girls' names in 2019
More about 2019
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1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 9,815 of them was named Liah, which outranked 92.6% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,326Kacey172
- #1,326Petra172
- #1,326Ripley172
- #1,332Liah171
- #1,332Brayleigh171
- #1,332Eliyanah171
- #1,332Finnley171
- #1,340Alita170
- #1,340Angeline170
- #1,340Annaleigh170
Tied with 7 names at #1,332; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.