Meaning not yet researched.
Lyan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 51 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,991 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,991 in 2021; #2,588 in 2025. About 89% of babies named Lyan in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,588 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #1,991.
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Lyan: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 51 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,991 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 75 (2021).
In 2025, 51 US boys were named Lyan, making it the 2,588th most common boys’ name of the year, up 189 places from #2,777 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 47 boys named Lyan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,991, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 75. For comparison, it was #4,487 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 6 US girls were named Lyan, making it the 14,248th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #10,894, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 9. For comparison, it was #15,647 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lyan in 22 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1992 with 6 babies. In all, 747 US babies have been given the name, 15% of them girls and 85% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 376 babies named Lyan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 531 US boys were named Lyan; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 75. In 2025 that was about 1 in 33,492 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lyan ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #990 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Lian (5,705 babies since 1880), Lyon (962 babies since 1880), Lynn (234,778 babies since 1880) and Leon (184,074 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 Lyan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 6 | #990 | — |
| Florida | 6 | #1,764 | — |
| Texas | 8 | #2,019 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,248 | 51 | #2,588 |
| 2024 | — | — | 47 | #2,777 |
| 2023 | — | — | 57 | #2,408 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,894 | 65 | #2,228 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,741 | 75 | #1,991 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,949 | 54 | #2,428 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,022 | 60 | #2,303 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,933 | 44 | #2,778 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,309 | 46 | #2,700 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,436 | 32 | #3,492 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,647 | 22 | #4,487 |
| 2014 | — | — | 19 | #4,991 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,057 | 12 | #6,870 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,412 | 13 | #6,525 |
| 2011 | — | — | 11 | #7,312 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,989 | 14 | #6,248 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,437 | 5 | #13,715 |
| 2007 | — | — | 6 | #11,805 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,906 | — | — |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,657 | — | — |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,719 | — | — |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,683 | — | — |
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).