Lyman

Where Lyman comes from

The dictionaries list Lyman as a given name — a male given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1835
    Lyman Abbott born
    American theologian, editor, author
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #299 among boys — 31 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1882
    Peak, #267
    41 babies named Lyman — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1914
    Lyman Spitzer born
    American astronomer
  5. 1981
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,030.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name.
Namesakes
  • Lyman Spitzer · American astronomer, 1914–1997
  • Lyman Abbott · American theologian, editor, author, 1835–1922
  • Lyman Lemnitzer · American general, 1899–1988
  • Lyman Beecher · American Presbyterian minister and American Temperance Society co-founder, 1775–1863
  • Lyman Hall · American physician, 1724–1790

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.