Lyan
Lyan is given to both girls and boys: 6 girls and 51 boys were given it in 2025 (#14,244 among girls’ names and #2,588 among boys’, #5,184 among all names counting both); 747 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lyan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lyan?
#2,588 among boys’ names, 2025
Lyan rose from #4,485 in 2015 to #2,588 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 11.5 to 29.9 per million.
80 babies in 2021, the peak
Lyan peaked in 2021, when 80 babies were given it (75 boys, #1,990 among boys’ names). The 57 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 71% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,244 | 51 | #2,588 |
| 2024 | under 5 | 47 | #2,777 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 57 | #2,407 | |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,889 | 65 | #2,227 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,736 | 75 | #1,990 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,944 | 54 | #2,427 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,017 | 60 | #2,302 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,928 | 44 | #2,777 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,305 | 46 | #2,699 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,431 | 32 | #3,491 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #15,642 | 22 | #4,485 |
| 2014 | under 5 | 19 | #4,987 | |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,052 | 12 | #6,865 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,405 | 13 | #6,519 |
| 2011 | under 5 | 11 | #7,305 | |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,983 | 14 | #6,243 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,431 | 5 | #13,709 |
| 2007 | under 5 | 6 | #11,799 | |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,900 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,650 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,712 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,676 | 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 Lyan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 747 Americans recorded as Lyan, 15% are girls and 85% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lyan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lyan, and how old are they?
An estimated 741 Americans named Lyan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 4 and 10. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 599 people named Lyan (302 women and girls, 297 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 383 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 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 Lyan?
Lyan is a less common spelling of Lian: SSA has recorded 747 Lyan and 5,705 Lian since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 10,246 babies since 1880, Lyan is the fourth most given (7.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 57 of their 958 babies (5.9%), the second 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 Lyan
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 Lyan and names like it
- Compare Lyan and LianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLyan peaked in 2021.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lyan since 1910.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Lyan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Lyan alive today were born 2013-2025.
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