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Lyrica vs Lyrik

American parents have registered 2,159 Lyriks since 1880, against 944 Lyricas. Lyrik is still ahead, with 56 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lyrica against Lyrik, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lyrica 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

Of the 33 years in which either name was published, Lyrik for 28 years and Lyrica for 5 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Lyrica Lyrik
Total US births 9442,159
Most in one year 102164
Babies in 2025 2956
Estimated living today 9402,100
Median age today 711
Peak year 20182013
Best rank 1,937th girls1,880th girls
Rank in 2025 4,661st4,878th
First recorded 19801995
Girls / boys 944 / 01,288 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Lyriks alive today are over 11; half the Lyricas are over 7. That is 4 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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: Lyrica and Lyrik.