Lycia
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Lycia has been given to 71 babies in the U.S. since 1960. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1961, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Lycia, 1999
1 in 738,000
Lycia over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Lycia?
Lycia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1999, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1999
- 1 in 738,000
- 5 of 3,692,373 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 355,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1999
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 511,873 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Lycia sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1999 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 511,873 children born in 1999 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lycia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Lycias were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Lycia was born before 1966 — so the typical Lycia is around 59 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 56.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 21.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 71
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 56.3% of all recorded uses (40).
Is Lycia 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1961 (10)
- Years since peak
- 64
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.6% average annual change
Spellings of Lycia
Lycia is not the most common spelling — Alicia is, with 26.2% against Lycia's <0.01%.
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.
Lycia around the world
Where Lycia 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 & Wales2008–2015#4,736in 2015
- France1983–2025#1,425in 2025
- Canada2007–2022#3,322in 2022
- South Australia1955–1955#502in 1955
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Lycia by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Lycia
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Lycia
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.