Lyam
Lyam was given to 198 boys in 2025, #1,086 among boys’ names; 2,077 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,060 Americans named Lyam and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lyam by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lyam?
#1,086 among boys’ names, 2025
Lyam rose from #1,662 in 2015 to #1,086 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.05 to 0.12 per 1,000.
198 babies in 2024, the peak
Lyam peaked in 2024, when 198 boys were given it, #1,093 among boys’ names. The 198 births of 2025 are 100% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 198 | #1,086 | 0.12 |
| 2024 | 198 | #1,093 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 193 | #1,104 | 0.11 |
| 2022 | 142 | #1,326 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 137 | #1,354 | 0.08 |
| 2020 | 151 | #1,238 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 153 | #1,238 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 122 | #1,439 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 125 | #1,407 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 104 | #1,583 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 95 | #1,662 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 97 | #1,616 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 88 | #1,690 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 82 | #1,807 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 65 | #2,072 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 43 | #2,814 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 37 | #3,142 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 19 | #4,993 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 10 | #7,953 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 5 | #13,246 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,787 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 5 | #11,777 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Lyam a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lyam has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lyam: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lyam, and how old are they?
2,060 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,077 Americans ever recorded as Lyam. The median Lyam alive today is 7 years old; half are between 3 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 922 people named Lyam (21 women and girls, 901 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,088 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 271 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,790 |
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 Lyam born?
The states with the most babies named Lyam are Texas, Florida and California, with 52% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 37 | #741 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 21 | #741 | 1.9× |
| California | 20 | #1,071 | 0.7× |
| New York | 15 | #902 | 1.3× |
| Massachusetts | 13 | #400 | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 11 | #633 | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,057 | 1.0× |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,000 | 0.3× |
| Maryland | 6 | #772 | 0.3× |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,400 | 0.2× |
Where Lyam is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lyam is most over-represented in Florida: since 2002 it was given 1.9 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 Lyam with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Lyam?
Lyam is a less common spelling of Liam: SSA has recorded 2,077 Lyam and 359,085 Liam since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 362,615 babies since 1880, Lyam is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 198 of their 21,085 babies (<1%), again the second most given.
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 Lyam
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 Lyam and names like it
- Compare Lyam and LiamBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLyam peaked in 2024.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lyam since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Lyam.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Lyam alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.