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The first name 
Liya

Liya is a first name for girls.

Liya is a well-known but special name!

Liya 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 1,672 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,671 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 Liya.

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

Liya -
quite rare in all states

The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Liya 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 Liya is registered in 16 states, among which are Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia or Illinois. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Liya live in Virginia, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 29,265 would turn around if you called the name Liya across Virginia.

Liya 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 Liya 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, y and a

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

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Liya

If your name is Liya 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 Liya

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

Lion

Igloo

Yoyo

Apple

This is how the name Liya 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 Liya in Braille?

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

Liya

Liya

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

L
I
Y
A

Have you ever waved the name Liya

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
Y
A

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. Liya sounds like this: