girls:
826 births since 1971
#4890 (14th percentile)
overall:
826 births since 1971
#6913 (11th percentile)
The name Lyana is the #6,913 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 826 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 10.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,890 (14.4% percentile) for all time with 826 births since 1971.
Lyana first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (first recorded for girls in 1971). Birth data for Lyana is available in 39 out of the 53 years between 1971 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Lyana reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 5.4% percentile (ranked #894) with 31 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 31 births per million (ranked 5.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Lyana is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #901 (4.9% percentile) with 29 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lyana".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Lyana. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 33.3% confident that Lyana is pronounced as lee-AH-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is lee-UH-nuh, at 25.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like L IY0 AA1 N AH0) 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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