girls:
116 births since 2006
#5600 (2nd percentile)
boys:
299 births since 2006
#4287 (6th percentile)
overall:
415 births since 2006
#7324 (5th percentile)
The name Lyfe is the #7,324 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 415 recorded births since 2006. This represents the 5.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,287 (6.5% percentile) for all time with 299 births since 2006. For girls, it ranks #5,600 (2.0% percentile) for all time with 116 births since 2006.
Lyfe first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2006 .
The name Lyfe has been given predominantly to boys, with 72.0% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Lyfe were boys.
For boys, Lyfe reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 2.6% percentile (ranked #897) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 14 births per million (ranked 2.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Lyfe ranks #901 for boys (1.1% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 57.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Lyfe reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #932) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lyfe".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Lyfe is pronounced as laif, which has 1 syllables.
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