Lyam
About 2,077 American babies have been named Lyam since 2002, most of them around 2024. In 2025 it ranked 1,084th. About 2,100 Lyams are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 6.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Lyam
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,077
- Estimated living today
- 2,100
- Median age today
- 6
- Peak year
- 2024
- Best rank
- 1,092nd
- Rank in 2025
- 1,084th
- First recorded
- 2002
How old the living Lyams are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,077 babies given the name since 2002, about 2,100 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 2,000 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2019 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Lyam is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lyam is most concentrated in Florida (5.8×), Texas (2.7×), New Jersey (2.2×), New York (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2024
The most popular boys’ names the year Lyam peaked:
Lyam elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Lyam +2 spellings | 17,570 | 35th |
| Belgium boys | Lyam | 1,447 | 73rd |
| Switzerland boys | Lyam | 444 | 184th |
| France girls | Lyam | 135 | 3,229th |
| England and Wales boys | Lyam | 104 | 1,467th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Lyam: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Lyam | 88 | 0.007% | 556th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Lyam | 347 | 0.080% | 52nd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Lyam | 9 | 0.014% | 117th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Lyam is most concentrated in Neuchâtel, where 0.11% of children were given it – 41 of them.
Lyam: rank by region
In 2025, Lyam was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Lyam | 290 | 20 |
| Wallonia | Lyam | 37 | 71 |
| Brussels | Lyam | 153 | 8 |
In 2020, Lyam was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Lyam | 10 | 1 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Lyam appears in the lists for Province of Namur (25th), Province of Hainaut (29th), Province of Liège (42nd), Province of Walloon Brabant (64th), Brussels-Capital Region (153rd), Province of Flemish Brabant (177th) and Province of East Flanders (226th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Lyam by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 580th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Where Lyam lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 242 men called Lyam were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Lyam | 17 | 0.032 | 2,311 |
| Palmas, Las | Lyam | 15 | 0.026 | 2,730 |
| Pontevedra | Lyam | 9 | 0.020 | 1,690 |
| Córdoba | Lyam | 7 | 0.019 | 1,380 |
| Balears, Illes | Lyam | 9 | 0.014 | 3,436 |
| Valencia/València | Lyam | 17 | 0.013 | 3,391 |
Listed in 13 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 39 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Lyam against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.