girls:
2.4k births since 1979
#3557 (38th percentile)
overall:
2.4k births since 1979
#5449 (30th percentile)
The name Liah is the #5,449 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,371 recorded births since 1979. This represents the 29.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 29.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,557 (37.8% percentile) for all time with 2,371 births since 1979.
Liah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1979 (first recorded for girls in 1979). Birth data for Liah is available in 36 out of the 45 years between 1979 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Liah reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 18.3% percentile (ranked #785) with 97 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 99 births per million (ranked 18.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1993, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Liah is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #782 (17.4% percentile) with 97 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Liah".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Liah", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 38 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Leah" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Leah..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Liah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 65.8% confident that Liah is pronounced as LEE-uh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LAI-uh, at 34.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like L IY1 AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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