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Lysander

#1,719 in 2025Boys' name

A release, loosening + man

Lysander has been given to 798 babies in the U.S. since 1931. In 2025 it ranked #1,719 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 95 recorded.

Babies named Lysander, 2025

1 in 34,900

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lysander: meaning, origin, and history

A release, loosening + man

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lysander means

Lysander means “a release, loosening + man”.

Origin, language, and formation

Lysander is used in English.

Lysander comes through Ancient Greek Λῠ́σᾰνδρος.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 798 boys were recorded with the name Lysander between 1931 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 95 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,719 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,360 in 2020 to #1,719 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,337 in 2015 to #1,719 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 Lysander?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 34,900
95 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 18,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,719
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
24,190 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lysander 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 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 24,190 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lysander. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lysanders were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lysander was born before 2014 — so the typical Lysander is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
793
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Choose a decade

2010s — 37.7% of all recorded uses (301).

Is Lysander 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
+484
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,641
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,618
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.79×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (95)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,719
2025

Spellings of Lysander

Lysander is not the most common spelling — Leander is, with 66.1% against Lysander's 7.6%.

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 Lysander is used

Across 1910–2025, Lysander was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 485,692 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Maryland1 in —
  5. 5New Jersey1 in —
  6. 6New York1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Lysander has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lysander around the world

Where Lysander 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
    1997–2025
    #1,798
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2016–2016
    #2,748
    in 2016
  • South Australia
    2006–2010
    #494
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Lysander by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,719
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,641
Best rank ever
#1,719
2025
Peak year
2025
95 that year
First recorded
1931
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
798
Count in 2025
95

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

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Sibling names for Lysander

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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