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The first name 
Liah

Liah is a female first name.

Liah is a well-known but special name!

Liah is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,463 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,462 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Liah.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Liah

Liah -
ahead of the curve

In fact, the name Liah did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Liah seemed to be more popular than ever in 2018. Although the name never ranked higher than #1,167, 181 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Liah, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Liah was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Liah in 2022 – originality welcome!

In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Liah a few times. Among all newborn girls it ranked #1,211 - with a total of 176 baby girls. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving girls with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.

Liah -
quite rare in all states

The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Liah are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Liah is registered in 14 states, among which are Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia or Illinois. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Liah live in Arizona, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 22,259 would turn around if you called the name Liah across Arizona.

Liah has 4 letters 
and begins with an L

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 four letters, the name Liah is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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.

Other names with 
L, i, a and h

If you take all the letters in the name Liah – L, i, a and h – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Ilah or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Liah

If your name is Liah 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...

This is how you spell the name Liah

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Liah, you can simply say:

Lion

Igloo

Apple

Hat

This is how the name Liah is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Liah in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Liah

Liah

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Liah

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Liah is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

L
I
A
H

Have you ever waved the name Liah

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
H

Beeping like crazy...

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. Liah sounds like this: