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Lysandra vs Lysle

American parents have registered 686 Lysandras since 1880, against 440 Lysles. Lysandra is still ahead, with 12 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lysandra against Lysle, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lysandra Lysle

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 101 years in which either name was published, Lysandra for 52 years and Lysle for 49 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Lysandra Lysle
Total US births 686440
Most in one year 2320
Babies in 2025 12under 5
Estimated living today 66090
Median age today 3373
Peak year 19931920
Best rank 4,393rd girls1,747th boys
Rank in 2025 8,362ndunranked
First recorded 19471901
Girls / boys 686 / 00 / 440

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 Lysles alive today are over 73; half the Lysandras are over 33. That is 40 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Lysandra and Lysle.