Entry № 5986 · Hebrew origin

Liya Liya — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ LEE-yah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"I am for him"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew)

A name that means "i am for him".

Liya is from the Amharic ሊያ (Liya) — Ethiopian rendition of Hebrew Leah (לֵאָה — weary, also I am for him). Liya is one of the Ethiopian + Hebrew feminine names.

I am for him (Amharic-Hebrew).

The name in its native script.

ሊያ / לֵאָה
Transliteration
Liya
Pronunciation
/ ˈliː.jə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Liya stands.

Liya does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Liyas before her.

Real people
Liya Kebede
Ethiopian-American supermodel + Vogue Paris 2002 + WHO Ambassador.
born 1978
In fiction
Liya
Amharic-Hebrew Leah.

Names connected to Liya.

The number behind Liya.

2

The Peacemaker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Liya reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.