Meaning not yet researched.
Lya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 60 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,400 in 1968.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,400 in 1968; #2,845 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,845 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1968, at #2,400.
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Lya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 60 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,400 in 1968 · most girls in one year: 64 (2019).
In 2025, 60 US girls were named Lya, making it the 2,845th most common girls’ name of the year, up 67 places from #2,912 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 57 girls named Lya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,400, reached in 1968. The most girls given the name in a single year was 64, in 2019. For comparison, it was #3,286 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lya in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 27 babies. In all, 971 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 399 babies named Lya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 517 US girls were named Lya; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 64. In 2025 that was about 1 in 26,788 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lya ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #1,505 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Lea (34,468 babies since 1880), Lia (28,516 babies since 1880), Liya (2,375 babies since 1880) and Laya (2,102 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Lya in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 9 | #1,505 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,538 | — |
| Texas | 12 | #1,869 | #1,593 |
| California | 7 | #2,667 | #1,785 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 60 | #2,845 | — | — |
| 2024 | 57 | #2,912 | — | — |
| 2023 | 55 | #3,038 | — | — |
| 2022 | 43 | #3,632 | — | — |
| 2021 | 54 | #3,054 | — | — |
| 2020 | 56 | #2,918 | — | — |
| 2019 | 64 | #2,699 | — | — |
| 2018 | 41 | #3,713 | — | — |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,744 | — | — |
| 2016 | 46 | #3,448 | — | — |
| 2015 | 50 | #3,286 | — | — |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,070 | — | — |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,756 | — | — |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,089 | — | — |
| 2011 | 32 | #4,523 | — | — |
| 2010 | 28 | #5,047 | — | — |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,332 | — | — |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,875 | — | — |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,230 | — | — |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,735 | — | — |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,710 | — | — |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,038 | — | — |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,125 | — | — |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,748 | — | — |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,575 | — | — |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,529 | — | — |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,690 | — | — |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,427 | — | — |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,797 | — | — |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,739 | — | — |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,054 | — | — |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,467 | — | — |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,006 | — | — |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,591 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,143 | — | — |
| 1968 | 27 | #2,400 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).