Lya
- #2,822 for girls in 2025, 60 births
- Peak · girls
- 1968 · 27 births
- Debut · girls
- 27 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 971since 1968
Lya over time
Rank among girls' names. Lya has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,822 | 60 |
| 2024 | #2,889 | 57 |
| 2023 | #3,014 | 55 |
| 2022 | #3,595 | 43 |
| 2021 | #3,037 | 54 |
| 2020 | #2,890 | 56 |
| 2019 | #2,681 | 64 |
| 2018 | #3,677 | 41 |
| 2017 | #3,697 | 41 |
| 2016 | #3,411 | 46 |
| 2015 | #3,254 | 50 |
| 2014 | #4,003 | 37 |
| 2013 | #5,644 | 23 |
| 2012 | #4,047 | 37 |
| 2011 | #4,466 | 32 |
| 2010 | #4,974 | 28 |
| 2009 | #4,269 | 35 |
| 2008 | #5,750 | 24 |
| 2007 | #6,093 | 22 |
| 2006 | #6,592 | 19 |
| 2005 | #6,528 | 18 |
| 2004 | #8,716 | 12 |
| 2003 | #9,671 | 10 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 |
| 2001 | #7,317 | 14 |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 |
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 |
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| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 |
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| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 |
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| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 |
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| 1979 | #8,061 | 7 |
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| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 |
| 1968 | #2,360 | 27 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Lya! It came in at #2,360, and was given to 27 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1969–1978, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Lya is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Illinois#1,405 · 1 in 8,866
- Florida#1,436 · 1 in 9,640
- Texas#1,790 · 1 in 13,379
- California#2,487 · 1 in 23,103
Best ever in a state: #981 in Arizona, 2012.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Illinois | #1,405 | 5 | 1 in 8,866 |
| Florida | #1,436 | 9 | 1 in 9,640 |
| Texas | #1,790 | 12 | 1 in 13,379 |
| California | #2,487 | 7 | 1 in 23,103 |
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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 Lya
- 67 spots since 2024 (#2,889 → #2,822)
- 68 spots since 2020 (#2,890 → #2,822)
- 432 spots since 2015 (#3,254 → #2,822)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 1968 at #2,360 (27 births)
- Births halved by 1969, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 26,224 girls born in 2019 were named Lya (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 26,788 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,360 in 1968, was only 1 in 60,755 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 41.1% of all girls named Lya (399) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1960s | 32 | #2,360 (1968) | #4,916 |
| 1970s | 7 | #8,061 (1979) | #8,061 |
| 1980s | 5 | #10,912 (1986) | #10,912 |
| 1990s | 36 | #9,491 (1992) | #12,153 |
| 2000s | 167 | #4,269 (2009) | #8,108 |
| 2010s | 399 | #2,681 (2019) | #3,985 |
| 2020s | 325 | #2,822 (2025) | #3,041 |
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.
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