Lyric
Lyric is given to both girls and boys: 451 girls and 132 boys were given it in 2025 (#640 among girls’ names and #1,391 among boys’, #1,039 among all names counting both); 25,552 Americans have been recorded with it since 1928 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 25,300 Americans named Lyric and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lyric by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lyric mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lyric is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lyric?
#640 among girls’ names, 2025
Lyric fell from #287 in 2015 to #640 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.63 to 0.28 per 1,000.
1,480 babies in 2014, the peak
Lyric peaked in 2014, when 1,480 babies were given it (1,223 girls, #271 among girls’ names). The 583 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 39% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 451 | #640 | 132 | #1,391 |
| 2024 | 508 | #595 | 138 | #1,367 |
| 2023 | 564 | #538 | 174 | #1,182 |
| 2022 | 678 | #470 | 208 | #1,059 |
| 2021 | 760 | #413 | 200 | #1,069 |
| 2020 | 768 | #408 | 227 | #960 |
| 2019 | 869 | #365 | 196 | #1,049 |
| 2018 | 1,017 | #321 | 226 | #931 |
| 2017 | 1,072 | #306 | 222 | #941 |
| 2016 | 1,139 | #276 | 215 | #960 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,120 | #287 | 248 | #890 |
| 2014 | 1,223 | #271 | 257 | #861 |
| 2013 | 1,168 | #276 | 275 | #800 |
| 2012 | 1,083 | #294 | 266 | #824 |
| 2011 | 975 | #324 | 246 | #862 |
| 2010 | 806 | #397 | 265 | #809 |
| 2009 | 779 | #407 | 238 | #886 |
| 2008 | 739 | #429 | 216 | #941 |
| 2007 | 556 | #550 | 207 | #954 |
| 2006 | 447 | #646 | 153 | #1,129 |
| 2005 | 404 | #687 | 64 | #1,972 |
| 2004 | 371 | #718 | 52 | #2,224 |
| 2003 | 389 | #679 | 39 | #2,599 |
| 2002 | 328 | #741 | 46 | #2,275 |
| 2001 | 280 | #828 | 23 | #3,676 |
| 2000 | 285 | #800 | 29 | #3,039 |
| 1999 | 333 | #681 | 26 | #3,152 |
| 1998 | 360 | #640 | 31 | #2,683 |
| 1997 | 377 | #602 | 22 | #3,310 |
| 1996 | 425 | #549 | 19 | #3,623 |
| 1995 | 344 | #633 | 12 | #4,988 |
| 1994 | 44 | #2,776 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,827 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,962 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,450 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,974 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,180 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,757 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,986 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,870 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,746 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,876 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,751 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,066 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,769 | under 5 | |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,693 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,215 | under 5 | |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,967 | under 5 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 5 | #4,503 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Lyric a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 25,552 Americans recorded as Lyric, 82% are girls and 18% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lyric: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lyric, and how old are they?
25,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 25,552 Americans ever recorded as Lyric. The median Lyric alive today is 13 years old; half are between 8 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 16,881 people named Lyric (13,790 women and girls, 3,091 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 20,827 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 33 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 992 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 10,300 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 14,000 |
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 Lyric born?
The states with the most babies named Lyric are Texas, California and North Carolina, with 24% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 52 | #735 | 0.9× |
| California | 37 | #1,173 | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 32 | #450 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 30 | #754 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 29 | #395 | 1.5× |
| New York | 26 | #816 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 25 | #458 | 1.1× |
| Missouri | 23 | #342 | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 22 | #497 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 20 | #505 | 1.1× |
Where Lyric is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lyric is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1928 it was given 1.9 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 Lyric with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 27,776 babies since 1880, Lyric is the most given (92% of them). In 2025 it was given to 583 of their 639 babies (91%), again the most given.
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 Lyric
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 Lyric and names like it
- Compare Lyric and LyrikBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sLyric peaked in 2014.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lyric since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Lyric.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Lyric alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.