Ly — unisex name

What the Data Says About Ly

The Social Security Administration has registered 280 babies named Ly between 1973 and 2008, spanning 36 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ly currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2008. The name reached its historical peak in 1984, when 24 babies received it in a single year. Ly is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 119 additional births since 1978.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ly performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 147 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Ly shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 44 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Ly in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ly in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 280 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.