Lia is the Italian, Portuguese, Georgian and Greek form of Leah. It is derived from the Hebrew name Le’ah meaning ‘delicate’ or ‘weary’.
Lia is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Lia isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Lia ranks 291. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 7 were named Lia. In the entire USA, approximately 20,843 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Lia. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Lia Marie Johnson (*1996)
The US actress, singer and internet personality was named one of the »biggest young stars on YouTube« by Adweek in 2014.
Lia Chang (*1963)
Chang began her career modeling and acting and later added portrait and botanical photographer as well as journalist to her CV.
Lia Catherine Thomas (*1999)
The US-american athlete is the first openly transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I national championship in 2022. Especially around that time she has been part of the public debate about trans women in sports.
Lia Halloran (*1977)
Halloran has a MFA in painting and printmaking from Yale and her work has been exhibited nationally as well as internationally.
When you hear the name Lia, you might first think of a woman or a girl. But did you know that there are also places with the name Lia? Are you also called Lia? Maybe one day you will visit the places that are named just like you...
Lia is the name of a river in Veneto, a region in north-eastern Italy.
Lia is a village in Sør-Fron Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway.
There is a small town in northwestern Georgia called Lia.
is also the official abbreviation for the North Rhine-Westphalia State Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, which has its headquarters in Bochum, Germany.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names – 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A and S.
With only three letters, the name Lia is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with an L, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which girls' name with L is the most common... the answer is Linda.
If your name is Lia and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Lia, you can simply say:
Lion
Igloo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lia
Lia
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
I
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
L
I
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Lia sounds like this:
