Liyan
Liyan is given to both girls and boys: 6 girls and 10 boys were given it in 2025 (#14,216 among girls’ names and #8,002 among boys’, #12,116 among all names counting both); 90 Americans have been recorded with it since 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Liyan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Liyan?
#8,002 among boys’ names, 2025
Liyan entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #8,002 in 2025.
16 babies in 2025, the peak
Liyan peaked in 2025, when 16 babies were given it (10 boys, #8,002 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 7 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,216 | 10 | #8,002 |
| 2024 | under 5 | 7 | #10,504 | |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,448 | 8 | #9,423 |
| 2022 | under 5 | 9 | #8,709 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 9 | #8,570 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 5 | #13,290 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 6 | #11,601 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 6 | #11,594 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 6 | #11,613 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 7 | #10,310 |
Every recorded year (11)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #18,045 | under 5 |
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 Liyan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 90 Americans recorded as Liyan, 19% are girls and 81% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Liyan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Liyan, and how old are they?
An estimated 89 Americans named Liyan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 642 people named Liyan (554 women and girls, 88 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 31 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20.7 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Liyan?
Liyan is a less common spelling of Lian: SSA has recorded 90 Liyan and 5,705 Lian since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 10,246 babies since 1880, Liyan is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 958 babies (1.7%), the fifth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Liyan
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 Liyan and names like it
- Compare Liyan and LianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLiyan peaked in 2025.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Liyan.
- Names starting with LMost given first.