Girls' name · since 2005
Lylie
58 babies named Lylie in U.S. Social Security records since 2005, with the highest year being 2010. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #33,295 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 58
- born since 2005
- 2010s
- peak decade
Lylie is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 58 have been recorded since 2005.
Lylie has 58 recorded births among girls since 2005, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2005 to 2016.
- #33,295 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 58 born since 2005
- 2010s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Lylie ranks #33,295 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 58 born since 2005, peaking in the 2010s.
- #33,295 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 58
- born since 2005
- 2010s
- peak decade
Lylie's 58 recorded births place it above 53.85% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Lylie's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Lylie splits its recorded history at 2011: 45% of all births land in the more recent half, 55% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 2005 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2010 peak of 14 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Lylie popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2005–2016
- Peak year (2010)
- 14
- Annual births at peak, across 12 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000, last recorded 2016.
58 total births across 12 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2010 with 14 births in a single year.
Lylie by decade
2010s is the heaviest window (40 births, 69% of the file).
2010s was Lylie's strongest decade.
40 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 69% of all-time use.
Lylie births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s
2000s
18 births
- 2010s
2010s
40 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 40 births (69% of all-time use).
Lylie decade highlights
- Peak decade 40 births
- Runner-up 18 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
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Two nationwide peer axes for Lylie: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2010)
Similar record span (~11 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2005–2016 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Lylie draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.
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