Ligaya is the Tagalog word for "joy" or "happiness." Featured in José Rizal's Noli Me Tángere and Philippine national poetry — a beloved Filipino feminine name embodying the Tagalog love of joy.
Used widely in the Philippines.
Ligaya 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.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ligaya reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.