Meaning not yet researched.
Lyric: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 451 in 2025. Its best rank was #271 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #271 in 2014; #640 in 2025. About 77% of babies named Lyric in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#640 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #271.
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Lyric: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 451 girls in 2025. Peak: #271 in 2014 · most girls in one year: 1,223 (2014).
In 2025, 451 US girls were named Lyric, making it the 640th most common girls’ name of the year, down 45 places from #595 in 2024. That is 57 fewer than the 508 girls named Lyric in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #271, reached in 2014. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,223. For comparison, it was #287 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 132 US boys were named Lyric, making it the 1,391st most common boys’ name of the year, down 24 places from #1,367 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 138 boys named Lyric in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #800, reached in 2013. That year also had the most boys given the name: 275. For comparison, it was #890 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lyric in 49 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1928 with 5 babies. In all, 25,552 US babies have been given the name, 82% of them girls and 18% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 12,888 babies named Lyric.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,826 US girls were named Lyric; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,139. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,564 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lyric ranked highest in District of Columbia in 2025, at #136 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Lyrik (2,159 babies since 1880) and Lyriq (1,021 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lyrick, Lyricc and Leoric 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: Lyrick (334), Lyricc (65), Leoric (33), Lyryc (6), Leeric (5), Lyrric (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 Lyric 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 17 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 6 | #136 | #289 |
| Delaware | 6 | #157 | #221 |
| Missouri | 18 | #342 | #155 |
| Mississippi | 8 | #372 | #177 |
| Oklahoma | 11 | #390 | #190 |
| Georgia | 29 | #395 | #147 |
| Iowa | 8 | #417 | #448 |
| North Carolina | 25 | #450 | #234 |
| Ohio | 25 | #458 | #216 |
| Alabama | 11 | #467 | #198 |
| Nevada | 6 | #476 | #177 |
| Michigan | 17 | #497 | #296 |
| South Carolina | 10 | #501 | #171 |
| Illinois | 20 | #505 | #239 |
| Connecticut | 6 | #521 | #385 |
| Kentucky | 8 | #544 | #282 |
| Tennessee | 14 | #553 | #183 |
| Maryland | 9 | #581 | #130 |
| Virginia | 13 | #595 | #232 |
| Kansas | 5 | #643 | #283 |
| Louisiana | 7 | #652 | #153 |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #676 | #434 |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | #710 | #268 |
| Texas | 41 | #735 | #321 |
| Florida | 22 | #754 | #265 |
| Utah | 5 | #781 | #681 |
| New York | 20 | #816 | #539 |
| Arizona | 7 | #877 | #403 |
| Indiana | 7 | #882 | #315 |
| Minnesota | 5 | #939 | #500 |
| Washington | 6 | #999 | #898 |
| Colorado | 5 | #1,000 | #351 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,108 | #398 |
| California | 22 | #1,173 | #626 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 451 | #640 | 132 | #1,391 |
| 2024 | 508 | #595 | 138 | #1,367 |
| 2023 | 564 | #538 | 174 | #1,182 |
| 2022 | 678 | #470 | 208 | #1,059 |
| 2021 | 760 | #413 | 200 | #1,069 |
| 2020 | 768 | #408 | 227 | #960 |
| 2019 | 869 | #365 | 196 | #1,049 |
| 2018 | 1,017 | #321 | 226 | #931 |
| 2017 | 1,072 | #306 | 222 | #941 |
| 2016 | 1,139 | #276 | 215 | #960 |
| 2015 | 1,120 | #287 | 248 | #890 |
| 2014 | 1,223 | #271 | 257 | #861 |
| 2013 | 1,168 | #276 | 275 | #800 |
| 2012 | 1,083 | #294 | 266 | #824 |
| 2011 | 975 | #324 | 246 | #862 |
| 2010 | 806 | #397 | 265 | #809 |
| 2009 | 779 | #407 | 238 | #886 |
| 2008 | 739 | #429 | 216 | #941 |
| 2007 | 556 | #550 | 207 | #954 |
| 2006 | 447 | #646 | 153 | #1,129 |
| 2005 | 404 | #687 | 64 | #1,976 |
| 2004 | 371 | #718 | 52 | #2,228 |
| 2003 | 389 | #679 | 39 | #2,603 |
| 2002 | 328 | #741 | 46 | #2,279 |
| 2001 | 280 | #828 | 23 | #3,681 |
| 2000 | 285 | #800 | 29 | #3,045 |
| 1999 | 333 | #682 | 26 | #3,156 |
| 1998 | 360 | #640 | 31 | #2,686 |
| 1997 | 377 | #602 | 22 | #3,315 |
| 1996 | 425 | #549 | 19 | #3,629 |
| 1995 | 344 | #633 | 12 | #4,994 |
| 1994 | 44 | #2,781 | — | — |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,833 | — | — |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,968 | — | — |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,456 | — | — |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,979 | — | — |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,186 | — | — |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,762 | — | — |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,991 | — | — |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,873 | — | — |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,749 | — | — |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,877 | — | — |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,752 | — | — |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,068 | — | — |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,770 | — | — |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,695 | — | — |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,216 | — | — |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,969 | — | — |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,505 |
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).