Ligia

girls:

696 births since 1918

#5020 (12th percentile)

overall:

696 births since 1918

#7043 (9th percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Ligia is the #7,043 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 696 recorded births since 1918. This represents the 9.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,020 (12.1% percentile) for all time with 696 births since 1918.

Ligia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1918 (first recorded for girls in 1918). Birth data for Ligia is available in 61 out of the 101 years between 1918 and 2018. 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, Ligia reached its peak popularity in 1985, achieving the 2.9% percentile (ranked #777) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 15 births per million (ranked 2.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ligia".

1918 2018 19182018

Key Statistics

Total Births
696
Peak Births
28
Peak Year
1985
First Recorded
1918
Peak Percentile
2.9%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#777
Current Rank
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Ligia

Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Ligia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 37.5% confident that Ligia is pronounced as LIH-jee-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LIH-juh, at 20.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.

LIH-jee-uh (3 syllables)
37.5% confidence
L IH1 JH IY0 AH0
LIH-juh (2 syllables)
20.0% confidence
L IH1 JH AH0
LEE-jee-uh (3 syllables)
17.5% confidence
L IY1 JH IY0 AH0
LEE-juh (2 syllables)
10.0% confidence
L IY1 JH AH0
LIH-gee-uh (3 syllables)
10.0% confidence
L IH1 G IY0 AH0
lee-JEE-uh (3 syllables)
5.0% confidence
L IY0 JH IY1 AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

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 IH1 JH IY0 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.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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