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Lycurgus

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Lycurgus has been given to 7 babies in the U.S. since 1916. 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 1916, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Lycurgus, 1916

1 in 276,000

Lycurgus over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lycurgus: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lycurgus means

Lycurgus is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Lycurgus is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7 boys were recorded with the name Lycurgus between 1916 and 1916. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1916; its best national rank was #3,376 in 1916.

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 Lycurgus?

Lycurgus had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1916, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1916
1 in 276,000
7 of 1,934,362 births
Among boys only
1 in 127,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1916
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
191,544 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lycurgus sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1916 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 191,544 children born in 1916 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lycurgus. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lycurguss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lycurgus was born before 1916 — so the typical Lycurgus is around 109 today.

Median birth year
1916
About 109 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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Choose a decade

1910s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (7).

Is Lycurgus 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1916 (7)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#3,376
1916

Lycurgus by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,376
1916
Peak year
1916
7 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
1916
All-time count
7
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lycurgus

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

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Sibling names for Lycurgus

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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