Gender-neutral · #640 in 2025

Lyric

Lyric: popularity and trends since 1880

Rank
#640
Born 2025
451
Peak year
2014

Popularity, 1880–2025

per 100,000 girls born

Lyric per 100,000 girls born, by year. Peak: 2014. Gaps are years with fewer than five births, which SSA does not publish. Source: SSA, 1880–2025.

Recent trend

Lyric has been falling: its share of girls born has shrunk over the last 10 years. It now stands at 41% of its 2014 peak.

Boy or girl?

Over the last 10 years, 80% of children named Lyric were recorded as girls and 20% as boys. The file records sex, not a name's gender, and the share is measured over ten years rather than all time, so a name that has changed sides shows where it is now.

Sounds good with

Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.