girls:
11 births since 2015
#5705 (0th percentile)
boys:
56 births since 2016
#4530 (1st percentile)
overall:
67 births since 2015
#7672 (1st percentile)
The name Liyan is the #7,672 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 67 recorded births since 2015. This represents the 0.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,530 (1.2% percentile) for all time with 56 births since 2016. For girls, it ranks #5,705 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 2015.
Liyan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2015 (2015 for girls and 2016 for boys).
The name Liyan has been given predominantly to boys, with 83.6% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 57.1% of babies named Liyan were boys. Interestingly, until around 2016, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 2015 to 2015), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (90.3% boys from 2016 to 2023).
For boys, Liyan reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #920) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Liyan ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 90.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Liyan reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #946) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). Currently, Liyan is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #946 (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Liyan".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Liyan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 83.9% confident that Liyan is pronounced as LEE-uhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LEE-yuhn, at 16.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like L IY1 AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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