Liya

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Liya: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Liya: Recorded since 1998, its highest recorded position is #575, reached in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
30times a registrar ranked it
27years from first to last
#575highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1998–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#3848
2001	#1728
2002	#1317
2003	#2191
2004	#1535
2005	#1796
2006	#1435
2007	#1573
2008	#1344
2009	#1209
2010	#1040
2011	#1117
2012	#1099
2013	#1018
2014	#1094
2015	#923
2016	#1013
2017	#1002
2018	#972
2019	#920
2020	#674
2021	#654
2022	#694
2023	#734
2024	#575

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 25 of the 27 years from 1998 to 2024.

In 2024: #575 among girls in England and Wales, #790 among girls in Scotland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1998–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1998
First recorded at #3848 among girls in England and Wales in 1998 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1998–2024
Highest recorded position: #575 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024 (recorded 1998–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #575 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Liya appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 25 years beginning in 1998, and has registered 771 births with the name.

Liya across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Liya's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3848 (1998)	#575 (2024)	#575 (2024)	25 of 27	771 (1998–2024)	68 (2024)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#937 (2011)	#612 (2012)	#876 (2014)	4 of 4	16 (2011–2014)	6 (2012)

Liya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Liya in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000s	138	9 of 10	15
2010s	346	10 of 10	35
2020sbusiest	284	5 of 10	57

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 57 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Liya appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #575 in England and Wales in 2024.

Liya's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#575	68	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#734	49	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#694	53	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#654	59	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#674	55	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#920	39	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#972	37	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1002	36	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1013	35	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#923	39	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1094	32	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1018	35	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1099	31	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1117	30	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1040	32	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1209	25	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1344	21	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1573	16	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1435	17	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1796	12	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1535	14	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2191	8	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1317	15	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1728	10	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#612	6	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#937	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#790	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1998 and 2024, ranked in 25 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #575, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 68 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2011, and 26 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Livy · #2862, 16y
Liwia · #747, 17y
Liyaana · #1541, 15y
Liyah · #998, 25y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Rowen · #577, 30y
Rumaysa · #578, 28y
Noura · #583, 27y
Ozzie · #584, 23y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Avani · #575, 29y
Zaki · #575, 29y
Anabel · #576, 29y
Chisom · #576, 25y

Liya was ranked #575 in England and Wales · Girls in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Liya and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Liya without appearing here.

Liya moved ahead of

Cecilie Compare
In 2001 they stood at #3848 and #3848 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1317 and #4137.
Evan Compare
In 2000 they stood at #3848 and #2407 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1728 and #3998.
Finn Compare
In 2000 they stood at #3848 and #2701 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1728 and #3998.
Therese Compare
In 2000 they stood at #3848 and #2165 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #1728 and #3998.

Moved ahead of Liya

Blake Compare
In 2015 they stood at #923 and #1240 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #1013 and #768.
Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #920 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #674 and #460.
Harper Compare
In 2008 they stood at #1344 and #1391 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #1209 and #1171.

Moved the opposite way to Liya

Abigail Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Liya went from #3848 to #575 while Abigail went from #22 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Liya went from #3848 to #575 while Aimee went from #68 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Liya went from #3848 to #575 while Aisling went from #391 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Liya went from #3848 to #575 while Alex went from #179 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Liya

Ada Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Liya went from #3848 to #575 and Ada from #3142 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Liya went from #3848 to #575 and Alma from #2165 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Liya went from #3848 to #575 and Alyssa from #561 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Liya went from #3848 to #575 and Amalie from #3848 to #1128.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #575 in England and Wales in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Liya

Liya at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Liya across 2 official records

Liya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Liya appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Liya

Liya and the names beside it

Liya moved ahead of

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Liya at a glance

Liya across 2 official records

Liya by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Liya appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Liya

Liya and the names beside it

Liya moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Liya

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