Lyam
#1,084 for boys in 2025, 198 births
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 198 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,077since 2002
Lyam over time
Rank among boys' names. Lyam has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,084 | 198 |
| 2024 | #1,092 | 198 |
| 2023 | #1,103 | 193 |
| 2022 | #1,322 | 142 |
| 2021 | #1,349 | 137 |
| 2020 | #1,237 | 151 |
| 2019 | #1,234 | 153 |
| 2018 | #1,431 | 122 |
| 2017 | #1,402 | 125 |
| 2016 | #1,575 | 104 |
| 2015 | #1,657 | 95 |
| 2014 | #1,608 | 97 |
| 2013 | #1,685 | 88 |
| 2012 | #1,799 | 82 |
| 2011 | #2,059 | 65 |
| 2010 | #2,787 | 43 |
| 2009 | #3,105 | 37 |
| 2008 | #4,901 | 19 |
| 2007 | #7,590 | 10 |
| 2006 | #12,055 | 5 |
| 2005 | #8,299 | 8 |
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| 2002 | #10,667 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Lyam! It came in at #10,667, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2002–2004, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Lyam is popular in 2002
No state had 5 or more boys named Lyam in 2002, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Lyam
- 8 spots since 2024 (#1,092 → #1,084)
- 153 spots since 2020 (#1,237 → #1,084)
- 573 spots since 2015 (#1,657 → #1,084)
- Debuted 2002
- Peaked 2025 at #1,084 (198 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 8,627 boys born in 2025 were named Lyam (0.01%)
- 49.1% of all boys named Lyam (1,019) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 84 | #3,105 (2009) | #7,770 |
| 2010s | 974 | #1,234 (2019) | #1,724 |
| 2020s | 1,019 | #1,084 (2025) | #1,198 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Lyam in 2002
Top boys' names in 2002
More about 2002
boys
1,941,514 boys got a published name in 2002; 1 in 388,303 of them was named Lyam, which outranked 14.6% of the 12,489 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,822 names at #10,667; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.