Lyric
#640 for girls in 2025, 451 births · #1,388 for boys in 2025, 132 births
Given to girls 81.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2014 · 1,223 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 20,875since 1945
Lyric over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #640 | 451 | #1,388 | 132 |
| 2024 | #593 | 508 | #1,364 | 138 |
| 2023 | #537 | 564 | #1,176 | 174 |
| 2022 | #469 | 678 | #1,057 | 208 |
| 2021 | #413 | 760 | #1,067 | 200 |
| 2020 | #408 | 768 | #959 | 227 |
| 2019 | #364 | 869 | #1,047 | 196 |
| 2018 | #321 | 1,017 | #931 | 226 |
| 2017 | #306 | 1,072 | #940 | 222 |
| 2016 | #276 | 1,139 | #958 | 215 |
| 2015 | #286 | 1,120 | #890 | 248 |
| 2014 | #271 | 1,223 | #859 | 257 |
| 2013 | #275 | 1,168 | #799 | 275 |
| 2012 | #294 | 1,083 | #824 | 266 |
| 2011 | #324 | 975 | #860 | 246 |
| 2010 | #397 | 806 | #808 | 265 |
| 2009 | #407 | 779 | #883 | 238 |
| 2008 | #429 | 739 | #940 | 216 |
| 2007 | #550 | 556 | #954 | 207 |
| 2006 | #643 | 447 | #1,127 | 153 |
| 2005 | #686 | 404 | #1,967 | 64 |
| 2004 | #716 | 371 | #2,208 | 52 |
| 2003 | #677 | 389 | #2,579 | 39 |
| 2002 | #740 | 328 | #2,249 | 46 |
| 2001 | #827 | 280 | #3,617 | 23 |
| 2000 | #800 | 285 | #2,993 | 29 |
| 1999 | #682 | 333 | #3,103 | 26 |
| 1998 | #640 | 360 | #2,651 | 31 |
| 1997 | #600 | 377 | #3,261 | 22 |
| 1996 | #549 | 425 | #3,549 | 19 |
| 1995 | #633 | 344 | #4,791 | 12 |
| 1994 | #2,752 | 44 | — | |
| 1993 | #5,673 | 16 | — | |
| 1992 | #4,849 | 20 | — | |
| 1991 | #6,253 | 14 | — | |
| 1990 | #4,868 | 19 | — | |
| 1989 | #5,049 | 17 | — | |
| 1988 | #3,690 | 25 | — | |
| 1987 | #4,857 | 16 | — | |
| 1986 | #4,724 | 16 | — | |
| 1985 | #6,457 | 10 | — | |
| 1984 | #4,737 | 15 | — | |
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| 1980 | #5,544 | 12 | — | |
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| 1976 | #4,905 | 12 | — | |
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| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | — | |
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| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Lyric! It came in at #4,556, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1945–1967, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Lyric is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- South Carolina#110 · 1 in 444
- Oklahoma#134 · 1 in 543
- District of Columbia#148 · 1 in 434
- Maryland#150 · 1 in 629
- Arkansas#153 · 1 in 591
Best ever in a state: #35 in District of Columbia, 2014.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | #110 | 40 | 1 in 444 |
| Oklahoma | #134 | 29 | 1 in 543 |
| District of Columbia | #148 | 8 | 1 in 434 |
| Maryland | #150 | 37 | 1 in 629 |
| Arkansas | #153 | 19 | 1 in 591 |
| Mississippi | #174 | 17 | 1 in 642 |
| Alabama | #182 | 25 | 1 in 767 |
| Delaware | #184 | 5 | 1 in 506 |
| South Dakota | #187 | 6 | 1 in 514 |
| Michigan | #193 | 49 | 1 in 842 |
| Georgia | #197 | 54 | 1 in 873 |
| Florida | #203 | 85 | 1 in 1,011 |
| Illinois | #203 | 58 | 1 in 958 |
| Missouri | #206 | 30 | 1 in 866 |
| Tennessee | #209 | 34 | 1 in 900 |
| Louisiana | #213 | 24 | 1 in 828 |
| North Carolina | #213 | 47 | 1 in 966 |
| Nevada | #232 | 12 | 1 in 903 |
| Kansas | #240 | 13 | 1 in 923 |
| Virginia | #257 | 32 | 1 in 1,126 |
| Ohio | #272 | 42 | 1 in 1,233 |
| Indiana | #282 | 25 | 1 in 1,204 |
| Oregon | #309 | 12 | 1 in 1,208 |
| Kentucky | #311 | 14 | 1 in 1,277 |
| Texas | #322 | 100 | 1 in 1,599 |
| Nebraska | #327 | 7 | 1 in 1,122 |
| Pennsylvania | #351 | 32 | 1 in 1,598 |
| Wisconsin | #372 | 14 | 1 in 1,613 |
| New Jersey | #444 | 17 | 1 in 2,116 |
| Connecticut | #456 | 6 | 1 in 1,962 |
| California | #503 | 76 | 1 in 2,576 |
| Iowa | #508 | 6 | 1 in 2,076 |
| New York | #546 | 32 | 1 in 2,750 |
| Minnesota | #567 | 9 | 1 in 2,658 |
| Colorado | #635 | 8 | 1 in 2,828 |
| Arizona | #642 | 10 | 1 in 3,007 |
| Massachusetts | #678 | 7 | 1 in 3,600 |
| Washington | #706 | 9 | 1 in 3,452 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Lyric
- 47 spots since 2024 (#593 → #640)
- 232 spots since 2020 (#408 → #640)
- 354 spots since 2015 (#286 → #640)
- Biggest jump: 2,119 spots in 1995 (#2,752 → #633)
- Biggest drop: 118 spots in 2000 (#682 → #800)
- Debuted 1945
- Peaked 2014 at #271 (1,223 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 31 yrs · run 1995–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,461 girls born in 2014 were named Lyric (0.07%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,564 girls born in 2025 (0.03%)
- 50.2% of all girls named Lyric (10,472) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1944, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 5 | #4,556 (1945) | #4,556 |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 11 | #6,246 (1968) | #6,419 |
| 1970s | 17 | #4,905 (1976) | #6,450 |
| 1980s | 111 | #3,690 (1988) | #5,008 |
| 1990s | 1,952 | #549 (1996) | #2,750 |
| 2000s | 4,578 | #407 (2009) | #648 |
| 2010s | 10,472 | #271 (2014) | #311 |
| 2020s | 3,729 | #408 (2020) | #510 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Lyric in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 1,611 of them was named Lyric, which outranked 98.3% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 8,338 of them was named Lyric, which outranked 93.4% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).