Lyman
Lyman is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 271st, in 1882.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1917220 births
- Best rank
- #271in 1882
- Since 1880
- 8,553people given the name
The story in the numbers
8,553 boys have been named Lyman in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 220 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 220 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1931, and the 1920s alone account for 21%. It has spent 83 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Lyman | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 297 | |
| 1890s | 284 | |
| 1900s | 309 | |
| 1910s | 1,336 | |
| 1920s | 1,823 | |
| 1930s | 1,233 | |
| 1940s | 1,099 | |
| 1950s | 800 | |
| 1960s | 487 | |
| 1970s | 308 | |
| 1980s | 227 | |
| 1990s | 146 | |
| 2000s | 63 | |
| 2010s | 108 | |
| 2020s | 33 |
In 1917, its biggest year
Lyman was the 381st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1917 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Lyman
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Albertpeak 1921
- Granvillepeak 1918
- Walterpeak 1918
- Horacepeak 1921
- Arthurpeak 1921
- Millardpeak 1922
- Georgepeak 1921
- Evertpeak 1923
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.