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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Ly

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

280

peak year 1984

More common than

77%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1984
24 births
Best rank
#3,477
in 1984
First recorded
1973
#9,192 that year
Last recorded
2008
no later published record
Average birth year
1988
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
26 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 198424#3,477Peak
  2. 198222#3,713
  3. 198017#4,434
  4. 198117#4,448
  5. 198516#4,765

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #3,477 in 1984 · peak births 24 in 1984

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 30% boys■ 70% girls

119 boys · 280 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Ly has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.