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Lyna

#8,149 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Lina

Lyna has been given to 1,045 babies in the U.S. since 1911. In 2025 it ranked #8,149 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Lyna, 2025

1 in 255,000

Lyna over time, 1880–2025

Girls
010203018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lyna: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Lina

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lyna means

Lyna is a variant of Lina.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Lyna → Lina → Linus → Linus → Λῖνος. The family’s proposed meaning is “flax”, recorded in Ancient Greek with the source elements línon.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lina.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,045 girls were recorded with the name Lyna between 1911 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 30 in 2004; its best national rank was #2,097 in 1911.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,424 in 2020 to #8,149 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,158 in 2015 to #8,149 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 Lyna?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 124,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,149
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lyna 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lyna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lynas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lyna was born before 1997 — so the typical Lyna is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
21.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
45.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
942
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Choose a decade

2000s — 21.2% of all recorded uses (222).

Is Lyna 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
−3,178
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−725
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,991
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.62×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
43.3%
Peak was 2004 (30)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,097
1911

Spellings of Lyna

Lyna is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 18.9% against Lyna'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.

Where Lyna is used

Across 1910–2025, Lyna was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 259,575 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in —

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. Lyna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lyna around the world

Where Lyna 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
    2002–2024
    #4,844
    in 2024
  • France
    1953–2025
    #56
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,469
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1982–2007
    #803
    in 2007

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.

Lyna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,149
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 725
Best rank ever
#2,097
1911
Peak year
2004
30 that year
First recorded
1911
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,045
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Lyna

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

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Sibling names for Lyna

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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