Lyris

Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Lyris has been given to 69 babies in the U.S. since 2001. 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 2010, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Lyris, 2024

1 in 669,000

Lyris over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Lyris?

Lyris had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lyris 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lyris. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lyriss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lyris was born before 2010 — so the typical Lyris is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
46.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
69
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 46.4% of all recorded uses (32).

Is Lyris 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 2010 (11)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,206
2010

Spellings of Lyris

Lyris is not the most common spelling — Doris is, with 28.8% against Lyris'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.

Lyris around the world

Where Lyris 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.

  • France
    2020–2020
    #5,538
    in 2020

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Lyris by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,206
2010
Peak year
2010
11 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
69
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lyris

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

Sibling names for Lyris

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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