Libia
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Name of the wife of Poseidon; linked with Libya, the ancient name for Africa
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/libja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Libia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country.
- COColombia≈1 in 3.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- ECEcuador1 in 4.3K
- VEVenezuela1 in 4.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 160 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Name of the wife of Poseidon; linked with Libya, the ancient name for Africa.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Libia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the co-datosgov-candidates register; asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INEC — civil registry names; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Libia is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, Libya (a country in North Africa)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, Libyan
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Libia Lobo Sardesaib. 1924INIndian independence activist (born 1924)
- Oliwia Dąbrowskab. 1989PLnot in their usual namePolish actress
- Oliwia Jabłońskab. 1997PLnot in their usual namePolish sportsperson
- Oliwia Wosb. 1999PLnot in their usual namePolish association football player
- Oliwia Kiołbasab. 2000PLnot in their usual namePolish chess player
- Oliwia Rzepielb. 2001PLnot in their usual namePolish figure skater
- Oliwka Brazilb. 2001PLnot in their usual namePolish rapper
- Oliwia Szmigielb. 2003PLnot in their usual namePolish para-badminton player (born 2003)
- Oliwia Drzazgab. 2005not in their usual namePolish weightlifter
- Oliwia Gawlik-KotelnickaPLnot in their usual namePolish psychiatrist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 33 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VE Venezuela | asosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996) | — | 6.3K | #310 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 3.9K | #412 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 3.9K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 3K | #4,695 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 2.9K | #2,132 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 2.6K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 2.6K | #4,337 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 2.5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 2.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 2.2K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 1.9K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 1.3K | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Libia mean, and where does it come from?
- Name of the wife of Poseidon; linked with Libya, the ancient name for Africa. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- How do you pronounce Libia?
- A machine transcription gives /libja/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Libia a male or female name?
- Libia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Libia?
- In the etymology graph, Libio is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Libia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Libia in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled libia.
- How common is the name Libia?
- In Venezuela, the national register counted 6,291 people named Libia, about 1 in 4.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Libia compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Libia is the 413th most common given name of 106,067 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Libia?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/libiaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Libia” — the 413th most common given name in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.