Lyman
Recorded for boysSilent Generation2025 rank
#11,484
not recorded in 2025
2025 births
6
All-time births
8,559
0% of them in 2025
More common than
97%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1917
- 220 births
- Best rank
- #271
- in 1882
- First recorded
- 1880
- #302 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1936
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 144 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 1917220#381Peak
- 1922205#419
- 1921201#430
- 1924195#438
- 1923191#441
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #271 in 1882 · peak births 220 in 1917
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 Lyman has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.
The girls' series
No girls have been recorded with this name.
Stated, not plotted as zero — the split bar and the unisex badge are omitted rather than drawn empty.