Meaning not yet researched.
Lyra: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 711 in 2025. Its best rank was #435 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Lyra in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#435 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Lyra: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 711 girls in 2025. Peak: #435 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 711 (2025).
In 2025, 711 US girls were named Lyra, making it the 435th most common girls’ name of the year, up 47 places from #482 in 2024. That is 69 more than the 642 girls named Lyra in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #435, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 711. For comparison, it was #978 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lyra in 78 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1893 with 5 babies. In all, 8,095 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 3,815 babies named Lyra.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,369 US girls were named Lyra; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 711. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,261 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lyra ranked highest in Vermont in 2025, at #87 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Leora (12,125 babies since 1880), Lera (2,609 babies since 1880), Liora (1,683 babies since 1880) and Liara (817 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lyrah, Lyrae and Liyara 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Lyrah (202), Lyrae (40), Liyara (6), Lirah (5).
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 Lyra 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 16 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vermont | 5 | #87 | — |
| Massachusetts | 29 | #194 | #791 |
| Oregon | 17 | #214 | #363 |
| Washington | 33 | #224 | #897 |
| Nevada | 11 | #252 | — |
| Colorado | 25 | #261 | — |
| Tennessee | 26 | #304 | — |
| Missouri | 20 | #305 | — |
| Connecticut | 10 | #310 | — |
| Kansas | 11 | #311 | — |
| Minnesota | 18 | #320 | #438 |
| South Carolina | 14 | #362 | — |
| California | 89 | #371 | #862 |
| Pennsylvania | 28 | #395 | #661 |
| Ohio | 29 | #396 | #774 |
| Wisconsin | 13 | #410 | #933 |
| Iowa | 8 | #416 | #669 |
| Indiana | 16 | #436 | #745 |
| Idaho | 5 | #455 | — |
| New York | 38 | #458 | #1,254 |
| Arizona | 15 | #465 | — |
| Oklahoma | 9 | #468 | — |
| Utah | 9 | #470 | #680 |
| Michigan | 17 | #496 | #1,082 |
| North Carolina | 22 | #501 | — |
| Illinois | 20 | #504 | #1,242 |
| Virginia | 16 | #507 | #1,333 |
| Arkansas | 6 | #533 | #653 |
| Maryland | 10 | #534 | #682 |
| Georgia | 21 | #540 | #1,674 |
| Louisiana | 8 | #570 | — |
| Mississippi | 5 | #600 | — |
| Florida | 26 | #667 | — |
| New Jersey | 9 | #815 | #1,291 |
| Texas | 33 | #892 | #1,254 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 711 | #435 | — | — |
| 2024 | 642 | #482 | — | — |
| 2023 | 639 | #482 | — | — |
| 2022 | 637 | #496 | — | — |
| 2021 | 643 | #489 | — | — |
| 2020 | 543 | #550 | — | — |
| 2019 | 431 | #673 | — | — |
| 2018 | 429 | #682 | — | — |
| 2017 | 396 | #724 | — | — |
| 2016 | 298 | #922 | — | — |
| 2015 | 276 | #978 | — | — |
| 2014 | 249 | #1,046 | — | — |
| 2013 | 250 | #1,002 | — | — |
| 2012 | 247 | #1,028 | — | — |
| 2011 | 243 | #1,027 | — | — |
| 2010 | 219 | #1,124 | — | — |
| 2009 | 234 | #1,089 | — | — |
| 2008 | 200 | #1,258 | — | — |
| 2007 | 67 | #2,736 | — | — |
| 2006 | 62 | #2,836 | — | — |
| 2005 | 50 | #3,152 | — | — |
| 2004 | 45 | #3,370 | — | — |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,889 | — | — |
| 2002 | 28 | #4,455 | — | — |
| 2001 | 29 | #4,277 | — | — |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,845 | — | — |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,092 | — | — |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,721 | — | — |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,686 | — | — |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,598 | — | — |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,470 | — | — |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,312 | — | — |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,588 | — | — |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,903 | — | — |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,455 | — | — |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,463 | — | — |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,744 | — | — |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,178 | — | — |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,310 | — | — |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,839 | — | — |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,739 | — | — |
| 1982 | 14 | #5,094 | — | — |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,096 | — | — |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,936 | — | — |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,068 | — | — |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,704 | — | — |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,394 | — | — |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,067 | — | — |
| 1975 | 12 | #5,026 | — | — |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,960 | — | — |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,196 | — | — |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,817 | — | — |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,811 | — | — |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,119 | — | — |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,987 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,413 | — | — |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,362 | — | — |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,748 | — | — |
| 1960 | 8 | #5,011 | — | — |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,645 | — | — |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,117 | — | — |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,754 | — | — |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,768 | — | — |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,783 | — | — |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,768 | — | — |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,208 | — | — |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,974 | — | — |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,462 | — | — |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,609 | — | — |
| 1926 | 6 | #4,628 | — | — |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,742 | — | — |
| 1921 | 11 | #3,074 | — | — |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,359 | — | — |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,571 | — | — |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,313 | — | — |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,453 | — | — |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,618 | — | — |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,560 | — | — |
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).