Lyric vs Lyrik
American parents have registered 25,552 Lyrics since 1880, against 2,159 Lyriks. Lyric is still ahead, with 583 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Lyric Lyrik
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Lyric has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1928 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.
The closest they came was 2011, when Lyric had 1,221 and Lyrik had 140.
Side by side
| Lyric | Lyrik | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 25,552 | 2,159 |
| Most in one year | 1,480 | 164 |
| Babies in 2025 | 583 | 56 |
| Estimated living today | 25,000 | 2,100 |
| Median age today | 12 | 11 |
| Peak year | 2014 | 2013 |
| Best rank | 271st girls | 1,880th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 640th | 4,878th |
| First recorded | 1928 | 1995 |
| Girls / boys | 20,875 / 4,677 | 1,288 / 871 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Where each one is strongest
- Lyric Nevada (2.7×), Maryland (2.0×), Georgia (2.0×)
- Lyrik Texas (4.8×), Georgia (3.7×), California (1.8×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Lyric and Lyrik.