girls:
6.7k births since 1893
#2004 (65th percentile)
overall:
6.7k births since 1893
#3274 (58th percentile)
The name Lyra is the #3,274 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,735 recorded births since 1893. This represents the 57.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 57.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,004 (64.9% percentile) for all time with 6,735 births since 1893.
Lyra first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1893 (first recorded for girls in 1893). Birth data for Lyra is available in 76 out of the 131 years between 1893 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, Lyra reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 55.1% percentile (ranked #421) with 358 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 364 births per million (ranked 54.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1993, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Lyra is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #430 (54.7% percentile) with 364 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lyra".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Lyra is pronounced as LAI-ruh, which has 2 syllables.
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