Lyna
Lyna was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,149 among girls’ names; 1,045 Americans have been recorded with it since 1911 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lyna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lyna?
#8,149 among girls’ names, 2025
Lyna fell from #6,158 in 2015 to #8,149 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.8 to 8.1 per million.
30 babies in 2004, the peak
Lyna peaked in 2004, when 30 girls were given it, #4,560 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 43% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,149 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,971 | 16.7 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,873 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,250 | 15.2 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,133 | 9.8 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,424 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,567 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,416 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,120 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,234 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (85)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #6,158 | 11.8 |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,730 | 12.9 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,853 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,245 | 11.9 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,767 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,137 | 8.4 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,224 | 12.0 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,221 | 14.8 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,629 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,473 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,782 | 15.2 |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,560 | 16.3 |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,949 | 10.9 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,372 | 12.2 |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,002 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,387 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,705 | 8.5 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,336 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,111 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,131 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,471 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,917 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,919 | 11.1 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,389 | 9.8 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,417 | 12.3 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,791 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,708 | 8.1 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,916 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,984 | 9.2 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,649 | 9.9 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,544 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,847 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,392 | 10.2 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,755 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,649 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,154 | 6.6 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,195 | 3.1 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,561 | 3.3 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,185 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,941 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,591 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,839 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,735 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,036 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,639 | 5.1 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,335 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,690 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,795 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,582 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,105 | 4.5 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,293 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,123 | 4.0 |
| 1960 | 8 | #5,007 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,962 | 3.0 |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,109 | 3.5 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,593 | 4.1 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,152 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,034 | 7.4 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,749 | 3.8 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,632 | 5.6 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,063 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,078 | 4.7 |
| 1947 | 13 | #2,992 | 7.3 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,855 | 8.4 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,269 | 6.8 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,488 | 4.3 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,429 | 6.6 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,780 | 6.6 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,147 | 4.3 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,293 | 4.2 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,474 | 4.1 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,721 | 5.0 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,253 | 4.4 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,438 | 7.7 |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,097 | 16.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lyna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lyna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 85 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lyna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lyna, and how old are they?
An estimated 938 Americans named Lyna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 14 and 43. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,163 people named Lyna (1,151 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 853 born in the U.S. The Census count is 36% above 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 Lyna?
Lyna is a less common spelling of Lina: SSA has recorded 1,045 Lyna and 19,494 Lina since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 112,559 babies since 1880, Lyna is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 1,907 babies (<1%), the sixth 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 Lyna
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 Lyna and names like it
- Compare Lyna and LinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sLyna peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lyna since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Lyna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Lyna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.