Lyfe
- Last seen for girls in 2024 at #12,161
- #4,707 for boys in 2025, 21 births
- Given to boys 73.2% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2016 · 29 births
- Debut · boys
- 12 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 339since 2006
Lyfe over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
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| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #4,707 | 21 | |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 | #5,067 | 19 |
| 2023 | — | #5,927 | 15 | |
| 2022 | #8,032 | 13 | #5,215 | 18 |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 | #4,247 | 24 |
| 2020 | #7,969 | 13 | #4,426 | 22 |
| 2019 | #10,473 | 9 | #4,806 | 20 |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #4,354 | 23 |
| 2017 | #9,341 | 11 | #6,060 | 14 |
| 2016 | #10,113 | 10 | #3,681 | 29 |
| 2015 | #14,482 | 6 | #6,324 | 13 |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | #6,632 | 12 |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 | #4,621 | 20 |
| 2012 | — | #5,482 | 16 | |
| 2011 | — | #9,600 | 7 | |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 | #5,741 | 15 |
| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 | #7,236 | 11 |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | #7,187 | 11 |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #5,210 | 17 |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | #6,460 | 12 |
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First appearance
2006
The first year at least five boys were named Lyfe! It came in at #6,460, and was given to 12 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2011, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
Where Lyfe is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Lyfe in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Lyfe
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 360 spots since 2024 (#5,067 → #4,707)
- 281 spots since 2020 (#4,426 → #4,707)
- 1,617 spots since 2015 (#6,324 → #4,707)
Rise & fade · boys
10 yrs to peak
- Debuted 2006
- Peaked 2016 at #3,681 (29 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 65,439
- Highest: 1 in 65,439 boys born in 2016 were named Lyfe (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 81,337 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 49.9% of all boys named Lyfe (169) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 51 | #5,210 (2007) | #6,523 |
| 2010s | 169 | #3,681 (2016) | #5,730 |
| 2020s | 119 | #4,247 (2021) | #4,932 |
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.
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