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 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#609 · 1 in 4,085
- Missouri#840 · 1 in 6,121
- Florida#859 · 1 in 6,905
- New York#878 · 1 in 6,968
- Ohio#1,074 · 1 in 9,727
Best ever in a state: #378 in Massachusetts, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #609 | 10 | 1 in 4,085 |
| Missouri | #840 | 5 | 1 in 6,121 |
| Florida | #859 | 14 | 1 in 6,905 |
| New York | #878 | 14 | 1 in 6,968 |
| Ohio | #1,074 | 6 | 1 in 9,727 |
| Texas | #1,092 | 17 | 1 in 10,363 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,211 | 5 | 1 in 11,642 |
| California | #2,263 | 6 | 1 in 35,951 |
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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 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 14,808 of them was named Lyam, which outranked 90.2% 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).
- #1,393Oren126
- #1,393Rylee126
- #1,393Zaylen126
- #1,402Lyam125
- #1,402Aspen125
- #1,402Azriel125
- #1,402Bernardo125
- #1,408Ansh124
- #1,408Jaidyn124
- #1,408Jakai124
Tied with 5 names at #1,402; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.