Lyric

A unisex name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 1,277 babies a year in the US.

Baby Names Arena rank
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needs 5 head-to-heads
Win rate
45%
of head-to-heads
US popularity
#640
down from #594
UK popularity
#3333
7 babies

How Lyric has moved

US popularity rank, 2015–2025. Lower is more popular.
#225#459#693201520202025#640

View as table
YearUS rank
2015#288
2016#278
2017#307
2018#321
2019#364
2020#408
2021#413
2022#469
2023#536
2024#594
2025#640

Lyric by the numbers

In 2025, 7 babies in England and Wales were named Lyric. In the US, 1,277 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given far more often in the US than in England and Wales.

Its American peak was 1,216 babies in 2014, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Lyric

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Lyric. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Lyrik98 in the US (2017)
  • Lyriq50 in the US (2017)
  • Lyrick21 in the US (2017)
  • Lyrix10 in the US (2017)
  • Lorielaurel; a form of Laura12 in the US (2017)
  • Lynix20 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Lyric

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