Lyann
Lyann was last recorded in 2024, when 5 babies were given it; 291 Americans have been recorded with it between 1953 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lyann by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lyann?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,763, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 1993, the peak
Lyann peaked in 1993, when 16 girls were given it, #5,825 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #16,763 | 3.0 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,018 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,279 | 4.1 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,900 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,141 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,053 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,473 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,496 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,165 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,185 | 4.4 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 7 | #14,755 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,545 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,902 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,858 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,377 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,826 | 7.7 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,605 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,240 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,507 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,781 | 5.1 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,553 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,130 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,875 | 7.4 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,825 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,186 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,979 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,891 | 3.7 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,012 | 2.8 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,002 | 2.9 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,927 | 3.5 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,939 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,689 | 3.7 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,693 | 3.0 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,956 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,850 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lyann a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 291 Americans recorded as Lyann, 98% are girls and 2% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lyann: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lyann, and how old are they?
An estimated 282 Americans named Lyann and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 16 and 33. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 443 people named Lyann (428 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 275 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Lyann rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 248,472 babies since 1880, Lyann is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 195 babies recorded by SSA was a Lyann (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Lyann
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 Lyann and names like it
- Compare Lyann and LynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sLyann peaked in 1993.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lyann since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Lyann.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Lyann alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.