Lior
Lior is given to both girls and boys: 15 girls and 78 boys were given it in 2025 (#7,351 among girls’ names and #1,968 among boys’, #3,733 among all names counting both); 1,209 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,200 Americans named Lior and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 4 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lior by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lior mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lior is “a male given name from Hebrew.” Its etymology gives the sense “my light” (לִיאוֹר).
From Hebrew לִיאוֹר (Lior, “my light”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lior?
#1,968 among boys’ names, 2025
Lior rose from #4,036 in 2015 to #1,968 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 13.6 to 45.7 per million.
93 babies in 2025, the peak
Lior peaked in 2025, when 93 babies were given it (78 boys, #1,968 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 58 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,351 | 78 | #1,968 |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,093 | 58 | #2,410 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,303 | 61 | #2,305 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,599 | 48 | #2,738 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,771 | 58 | #2,361 |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,088 | 39 | #3,006 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,474 | 40 | #3,027 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,066 | 41 | #2,921 |
| 2017 | under 5 | 29 | #3,730 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 27 | #3,941 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #13,873 | 26 | #4,036 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,602 | 28 | #3,742 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,675 | 26 | #3,915 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,913 | 27 | #3,847 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,469 | 25 | #4,057 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,697 | 21 | #4,621 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,145 | 13 | #6,665 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,301 | 17 | #5,389 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,314 | 23 | #4,310 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,094 | 20 | #4,614 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,447 | 13 | #6,081 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,369 | 16 | #5,151 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,257 | 16 | #4,948 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,725 | 10 | #6,838 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,169 | 7 | #8,856 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,574 | 11 | #6,159 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,128 | 10 | #6,317 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,698 | 8 | #7,267 |
| 1997 | under 5 | 7 | #7,787 | |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,279 | 8 | #6,867 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,676 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,508 | 12 | #4,988 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,420 | 9 | #6,036 |
| 1992 | under 5 | 8 | #6,454 | |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,435 | 9 | #5,766 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,252 | 7 | #6,875 |
| 1989 | under 5 | 10 | #5,028 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 6 | #6,917 | |
| 1987 | under 5 | 6 | #6,616 | |
| 1969 | under 5 | 5 | #4,769 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Lior a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,209 Americans recorded as Lior, 27% are girls and 73% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lior: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lior, and how old are they?
1,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,209 Americans ever recorded as Lior. The median Lior alive today is 10 years old; half are between 4 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 1,316 people named Lior (269 women and girls, 1,047 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 769 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 4 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 114 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 374 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 702 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Lior born?
The states with the most babies named Lior are New York, Florida and Texas, with 71% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 14 | #938 | 3.1× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,315 | 0.5× |
| Texas | 9 | #1,850 | 0.2× |
| California | 8 | #1,929 | 0.9× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #856 | 0.2× |
Where Lior is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lior is most over-represented in New York: since 1969 it was given 3.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Lior with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lior
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Lior and names like it
- Compare Lior and AriesBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLior peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lior since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Lior: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Lior.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Lior alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.