girls:
170 births since 2006
#5546 (3rd percentile)
overall:
170 births since 2006
#7569 (2nd percentile)
The name Lyrah is the #7,569 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 170 recorded births since 2006. This represents the 2.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,546 (2.9% percentile) for all time with 170 births since 2006.
Lyrah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2006 (first recorded for girls in 2006). Birth data for Lyrah is available in 16 out of the 18 years between 2006 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, Lyrah reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #926) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Lyrah ranks #939 for girls (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 90.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lyrah".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Lyrah is pronounced as LAI-ruh, which has 2 syllables.
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