Lyann — girls' name
286 babies named Lyann in U.S. Social Security records since 1953, with the highest year being 1993. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
31% of everyone ever named Lyann was born in this single decade.
16 babies were named Lyann in 1993 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Lyann
The Social Security Administration has registered 286 babies named Lyann between 1953 and 2022, spanning 70 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lyann currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 16 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Lyann performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 89 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Lyann shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 21 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Lyann in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Lyann 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 286 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.
Lyann at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Lyann popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1953
- Peak year (1993)
- 16
- Annual births at peak — across 70 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
286 total births across 70 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1993 with 16 births in a single year.
Lyann popularity over time — boys
5 total births recorded since 2024 (Lyann as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Lyann accounts for 2% of total recorded use across both genders.
Lyann by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 89 births that decade — 31% of Lyann's all-time total
Lyann decade highlights
- Peak decade 89 births
- Runner-up 80 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Lyann's strongest decade
89 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 31% of all-time use.
Lyann by state
Where Lyann concentrates geographically — total births since 1953
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 21 | 7.3% |
21 of 286 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 7.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 7.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1953–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.