Liara
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 26 babies a year in England and Wales.
Liara by the numbers
In 2025, 26 babies in England and Wales were named Liara. In the US, 60 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 63 babies in 2014, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Liara
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Liara. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Lianato bind or wrap around; climbing vine150 in England and Wales (2025)
- Larahousehold god; or shining, famous465 in England and Wales (2025)
- Lioramy light or I have light72 in England and Wales (2025)
- Liralyre; a stringed musical instrument21 in England and Wales (2025)
- Liyara5 in England and Wales (2025)
- Leara3 in England and Wales (2025)
Sounds like Liara
Names that are said the same way as Liara, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Liorahgod is my light; a form of Leora or Liora5 in England and Wales (2025)
Names about as common as Liara
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