girls:
2.1k births since 1992
#3764 (34th percentile)
overall:
2.1k births since 1992
#5706 (26th percentile)
The name Liya is the #5,706 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,076 recorded births since 1992. This represents the 26.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 26.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,764 (34.1% percentile) for all time with 2,076 births since 1992.
Liya first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1992 (first recorded for girls in 1992).
For girls, Liya reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 14.9% percentile (ranked #815) with 83 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 83 births per million (ranked 14.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1995, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Liya ranks #841 for girls (11.2% percentile) with 63 births per million, which is 76.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Liya".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Liya. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 86.8% confident that Liya is pronounced as LEE-uh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LEE-yuh, at 13.2% 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.
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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