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Lyanna

#877 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Lyanna has been given to 3,772 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #877 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 500 recorded.

Babies named Lyanna, 2025

1 in 10,900

Lyanna over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lyanna: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lyanna means

Lyanna is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Lyanna is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,772 girls were recorded with the name Lyanna between 1975 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 500 in 2019; its best national rank was #606 in 2019.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #766 in 2020 to #877 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,832 in 2015 to #877 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Lyanna?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 10,900
305 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 5,270
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#877
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
7,535 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lyanna sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5004%

Put another way: gather 7,535 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lyanna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lyannas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lyanna was born before 2019 — so the typical Lyanna is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
44.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,772
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 44.9% of all recorded uses (1,692).

Is Lyanna rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+79
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−111
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,955
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
4.92×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
61.0%
Peak was 2019 (500)
Years since peak
6
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#606
2019

Spellings of Lyanna

Lyanna is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 39.7% against Lyanna's 0.16%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Lyanna is used

Across 2016–2025, Lyanna was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 2,703 girls, against 1 in 4,870 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in 33,333).

337 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 2,703
  2. 2New York1 in 3,226
  3. 3Florida1 in 3,571
  4. 4Texas1 in 3,571
  5. 5California1 in 3,704
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 3,704
  7. 7Arizona1 in 3,846
  8. 8Connecticut1 in 3,846

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Lyanna is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 67% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Lyanna around the world

Where Lyanna ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2008–2025
    #1,639
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1978–2019
    #650
    in 2019
  • Northern Ireland
    2019–2019
    #424
    in 2019
  • Ireland
    2019–2025
    #885
    in 2025
  • France
    2001–2025
    #252
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2007–2024
    #586
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Lyanna by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#877
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 111
Best rank ever
#606
2019
Peak year
2019
500 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,772
Count in 2025
305

Names similar to Lyanna

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Lyanna

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Lyanna, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Lyanna

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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