Lyanna
Lyanna was given to 305 girls in 2025, #877 among girls’ names; 3,772 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,750 Americans named Lyanna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 9.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lyanna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lyanna mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lyanna is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lyanna?
#877 among girls’ names, 2025
Lyanna rose from #2,832 in 2015 to #877 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.03 to 0.19 per 1,000.
500 babies in 2019, the peak
Lyanna peaked in 2019, when 500 girls were given it, #606 among girls’ names. The 305 births of 2025 are 61% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 305 | #877 | 0.19 |
| 2024 | 273 | #956 | 0.17 |
| 2023 | 250 | #1,015 | 0.16 |
| 2022 | 243 | #1,050 | 0.15 |
| 2021 | 266 | #978 | 0.16 |
| 2020 | 355 | #766 | 0.22 |
| 2019 | 500 | #606 | 0.30 |
| 2018 | 320 | #849 | 0.19 |
| 2017 | 318 | #862 | 0.18 |
| 2016 | 216 | #1,168 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 62 | #2,832 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,874 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 62 | #2,795 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 46 | #3,503 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,427 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 44 | #3,600 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,987 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 45 | #3,621 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,177 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,751 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,024 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 34 | #4,142 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,075 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 24 | #5,010 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,517 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,110 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 12 | #8,017 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,568 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,049 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,896 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,462 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,131 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,158 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,468 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,432 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,701 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,370 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,454 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,003 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,385 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,661 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,940 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lyanna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lyanna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lyanna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lyanna, and how old are they?
3,750 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,772 Americans ever recorded as Lyanna. The median Lyanna alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 9.
The 2020 Census counted 1,912 people named Lyanna (1,910 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,155 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 X | 1965-1980 | 15 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 86 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 434 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,210 |
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 Lyanna born?
The states with the most babies named Lyanna are Texas, California and New York, with 55% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 55 | #574 | 1.3× |
| California | 53 | #604 | 1.3× |
| New York | 26 | #648 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 21 | #787 | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 12 | #646 | 1.2× |
| Illinois | 9 | #976 | 0.9× |
| Arizona | 9 | #727 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 9 | #1,025 | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 9 | #696 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,302 | 0.5× |
Where Lyanna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lyanna is most over-represented in New York: since 1975 it was given 1.3 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 girls’ 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 Lyanna 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 Lyanna?
Lyanna is a less common spelling of Liana: SSA has recorded 3,772 Lyanna and 20,666 Liana since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 104,851 babies since 1880, Lyanna is the fifth most given (3.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 305 of their 1,492 babies (20%), 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 Lyanna
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 Lyanna and names like it
- Compare Lyanna and LianaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sLyanna peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lyanna since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Lyanna.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Lyanna alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.