Meaning not yet researched.
Lyon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 54 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,898 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,898 in 2024; #2,502 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lyon in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,502 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #1,898.
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Lyon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 54 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,898 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 84 (2024).
In 2025, 54 US boys were named Lyon, making it the 2,502nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 604 places from #1,898 in 2024. That is 30 fewer than the 84 boys named Lyon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,898, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 84. For comparison, it was #2,795 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lyon in 43 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1947 with 5 babies. In all, 962 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 372 babies named Lyon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 562 US boys were named Lyon; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 84. In 2025 that was about 1 in 31,631 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lyon ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,651 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Leo (262,124 babies since 1880), Leon (184,074 babies since 1880), Lyan (747 babies since 1880) and Lynn (234,778 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Lyon 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 10 | #1,651 | #1,826 |
| New York | 6 | #1,675 | — |
| Florida | 6 | #1,765 | #1,468 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 54 | #2,502 |
| 2024 | — | — | 84 | #1,898 |
| 2023 | — | — | 53 | #2,527 |
| 2022 | — | — | 70 | #2,126 |
| 2021 | — | — | 50 | #2,608 |
| 2020 | — | — | 52 | #2,492 |
| 2019 | — | — | 62 | #2,248 |
| 2018 | — | — | 54 | #2,433 |
| 2017 | — | — | 41 | #2,928 |
| 2016 | — | — | 42 | #2,868 |
| 2015 | — | — | 43 | #2,795 |
| 2014 | — | — | 29 | #3,662 |
| 2013 | — | — | 30 | #3,549 |
| 2012 | — | — | 26 | #3,964 |
| 2011 | — | — | 25 | #4,061 |
| 2010 | — | — | 20 | #4,783 |
| 2009 | — | — | 18 | #5,231 |
| 2008 | — | — | 12 | #7,031 |
| 2007 | — | — | 14 | #6,145 |
| 2006 | — | — | 16 | #5,449 |
| 2005 | — | — | 8 | #8,796 |
| 2004 | — | — | 10 | #7,336 |
| 2003 | — | — | 9 | #7,606 |
| 2002 | — | — | 7 | #9,029 |
| 2001 | — | — | 11 | #6,277 |
| 2000 | — | — | 7 | #8,765 |
| 1999 | — | — | 10 | #6,327 |
| 1998 | — | — | 10 | #6,133 |
| 1997 | — | — | 9 | #6,415 |
| 1995 | — | — | 6 | #8,466 |
| 1993 | — | — | 7 | #7,303 |
| 1992 | — | — | 5 | #9,299 |
| 1989 | — | — | 5 | #8,725 |
| 1978 | — | — | 6 | #5,510 |
| 1977 | — | — | 7 | #4,926 |
| 1976 | — | — | 7 | #4,727 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #5,977 |
| 1974 | — | — | 7 | #4,445 |
| 1972 | — | — | 5 | #5,460 |
| 1971 | — | — | 7 | #4,214 |
| 1969 | — | — | 6 | #4,223 |
| 1968 | — | — | 8 | #3,269 |
| 1947 | — | — | 5 | #4,060 |
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).