Lyzander
#10,288 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Lyzander has been given to 46 babies in the U.S. since 2007. In 2025 it ranked #10,288 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Lyzander, 2025
1 in 474,000
Lyzander 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Lyzander?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 244,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #10,288
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Lyzander sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lyzander. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Lyzanders were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Lyzander was born before 2012 — so the typical Lyzander is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 50.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 46
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (23).
Is Lyzander 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
- +3,182
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −78
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 63.6%
- Peak was 2010 (11)
- Years since peak
- 15
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 80.0% average annual change
Spellings of Lyzander
Lyzander is not the most common spelling — Zander is, with 74.9% against Lyzander's 0.12%.
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.
Lyzander around the world
Where Lyzander 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.
- South Australia2010–2010#754in 2010
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Lyzander by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Lyzander
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Lyzander
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.