Meaning not yet researched.
Lyman: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #271 in 1882.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #271 in 1882; #11,484 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lyman in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,484 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1882, at #271.
Hover, tap or use the arrow keys for any year. Years with fewer than five babies of a sex are not published by SSA and show as zero.
Lyman: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 boys in 2025. Peak: #271 in 1882 · most boys in one year: 220 (1917).
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Lyman, making it the 11,484th most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #271, reached in 1882. The most boys given the name in a single year was 220, in 1917. For comparison, it was #6,926 in 2015 and #719 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lyman in 144 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 31 babies. In all, 8,559 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,823 babies named Lyman.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 85 US boys were named Lyman; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 16. In 2025 that was about 1 in 284,679 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Lemon, Lehman and Leman are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Lemon (1,430), Lehman (974), Leman (625), Leeman (380), Lymon (189), Leaman (135), Limon (10).
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 Lyman in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 6 | #11,484 |
| 2023 | — | — | 5 | #13,422 |
| 2022 | — | — | 8 | #9,527 |
| 2021 | — | — | 11 | #7,409 |
| 2020 | — | — | 9 | #8,479 |
| 2019 | — | — | 8 | #9,411 |
| 2018 | — | — | 7 | #10,333 |
| 2017 | — | — | 15 | #5,963 |
| 2016 | — | — | 16 | #5,694 |
| 2015 | — | — | 12 | #6,926 |
| 2014 | — | — | 13 | #6,498 |
| 2013 | — | — | 8 | #9,337 |
| 2012 | — | — | 6 | #11,709 |
| 2011 | — | — | 6 | #11,728 |
| 2010 | — | — | 17 | #5,390 |
| 2009 | — | — | 5 | #13,718 |
| 2008 | — | — | 7 | #10,598 |
| 2007 | — | — | 7 | #10,462 |
| 2005 | — | — | 6 | #10,957 |
| 2004 | — | — | 6 | #10,826 |
| 2003 | — | — | 9 | #7,605 |
| 2002 | — | — | 11 | #6,361 |
| 2001 | — | — | 6 | #10,053 |
| 2000 | — | — | 6 | #9,845 |
| 1999 | — | — | 6 | #9,449 |
| 1998 | — | — | 9 | #6,631 |
| 1997 | — | — | 13 | #4,844 |
| 1996 | — | — | 16 | #4,120 |
| 1995 | — | — | 10 | #5,755 |
| 1994 | — | — | 15 | #4,213 |
| 1993 | — | — | 12 | #4,896 |
| 1992 | — | — | 22 | #3,074 |
| 1991 | — | — | 25 | #2,725 |
| 1990 | — | — | 18 | #3,406 |
| 1989 | — | — | 19 | #3,167 |
| 1988 | — | — | 20 | #2,818 |
| 1987 | — | — | 18 | #2,905 |
| 1986 | — | — | 23 | #2,399 |
| 1985 | — | — | 26 | #2,156 |
| 1984 | — | — | 26 | #2,077 |
| 1983 | — | — | 26 | #2,057 |
| 1982 | — | — | 28 | #1,969 |
| 1981 | — | — | 14 | #3,146 |
| 1980 | — | — | 27 | #2,033 |
| 1979 | — | — | 26 | #2,025 |
| 1978 | — | — | 21 | #2,249 |
| 1977 | — | — | 25 | #1,979 |
| 1976 | — | — | 28 | #1,807 |
| 1975 | — | — | 26 | #1,866 |
| 1974 | — | — | 31 | #1,606 |
| 1973 | — | — | 27 | #1,724 |
| 1972 | — | — | 34 | #1,466 |
| 1971 | — | — | 41 | #1,320 |
| 1970 | — | — | 49 | #1,189 |
| 1969 | — | — | 35 | #1,369 |
| 1968 | — | — | 46 | #1,112 |
| 1967 | — | — | 37 | #1,244 |
| 1966 | — | — | 44 | #1,121 |
| 1965 | — | — | 42 | #1,179 |
| 1964 | — | — | 46 | #1,138 |
| 1963 | — | — | 58 | #998 |
| 1962 | — | — | 64 | #949 |
| 1961 | — | — | 53 | #1,073 |
| 1960 | — | — | 62 | #972 |
| 1959 | — | — | 70 | #917 |
| 1958 | — | — | 66 | #941 |
| 1957 | — | — | 84 | #829 |
| 1956 | — | — | 74 | #870 |
| 1955 | — | — | 85 | #797 |
| 1954 | — | — | 86 | #771 |
| 1953 | — | — | 68 | #870 |
| 1952 | — | — | 84 | #767 |
| 1951 | — | — | 92 | #724 |
| 1950 | — | — | 91 | #719 |
| 1949 | — | — | 87 | #741 |
| 1948 | — | — | 104 | #664 |
| 1947 | — | — | 120 | #628 |
| 1946 | — | — | 90 | #684 |
| 1945 | — | — | 100 | #607 |
| 1944 | — | — | 110 | #588 |
| 1943 | — | — | 129 | #558 |
| 1942 | — | — | 118 | #568 |
| 1941 | — | — | 124 | #530 |
| 1940 | — | — | 117 | #544 |
| 1939 | — | — | 119 | #526 |
| 1938 | — | — | 127 | #515 |
| 1937 | — | — | 106 | #564 |
| 1936 | — | — | 114 | #539 |
| 1935 | — | — | 127 | #510 |
| 1934 | — | — | 120 | #538 |
| 1933 | — | — | 115 | #530 |
| 1932 | — | — | 135 | #495 |
| 1931 | — | — | 121 | #528 |
| 1930 | — | — | 149 | #485 |
| 1929 | — | — | 152 | #477 |
| 1928 | — | — | 176 | #456 |
| 1927 | — | — | 151 | #495 |
| 1926 | — | — | 185 | #446 |
| 1925 | — | — | 186 | #440 |
| 1924 | — | — | 195 | #438 |
| 1923 | — | — | 191 | #441 |
| 1922 | — | — | 205 | #419 |
| 1921 | — | — | 201 | #430 |
| 1920 | — | — | 181 | #448 |
| 1919 | — | — | 164 | #462 |
| 1918 | — | — | 156 | #473 |
| 1917 | — | — | 220 | #381 |
| 1916 | — | — | 190 | #402 |
| 1915 | — | — | 180 | #400 |
| 1914 | — | — | 171 | #360 |
| 1913 | — | — | 91 | #453 |
| 1912 | — | — | 88 | #416 |
| 1911 | — | — | 45 | #436 |
| 1910 | — | — | 31 | #507 |
| 1909 | — | — | 39 | #394 |
| 1908 | — | — | 28 | #470 |
| 1907 | — | — | 32 | #401 |
| 1906 | — | — | 29 | #404 |
| 1905 | — | — | 28 | #406 |
| 1904 | — | — | 29 | #384 |
| 1903 | — | — | 33 | #336 |
| 1902 | — | — | 26 | #400 |
| 1901 | — | — | 26 | #367 |
| 1900 | — | — | 39 | #352 |
| 1899 | — | — | 33 | #308 |
| 1898 | — | — | 32 | #343 |
| 1897 | — | — | 35 | #314 |
| 1896 | — | — | 23 | #413 |
| 1895 | — | — | 21 | #433 |
| 1894 | — | — | 26 | #362 |
| 1893 | — | — | 29 | #329 |
| 1892 | — | — | 28 | #366 |
| 1891 | — | — | 30 | #307 |
| 1890 | — | — | 27 | #338 |
| 1889 | — | — | 21 | #399 |
| 1888 | — | — | 34 | #311 |
| 1887 | — | — | 23 | #347 |
| 1886 | — | — | 34 | #297 |
| 1885 | — | — | 29 | #315 |
| 1884 | — | — | 37 | #287 |
| 1883 | — | — | 26 | #329 |
| 1882 | — | — | 41 | #271 |
| 1881 | — | — | 21 | #372 |
| 1880 | — | — | 31 | #302 |
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).