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Lyrik vs Lyriq

American parents have registered 2,159 Lyriks since 1880, against 1,021 Lyriqs. Lyrik is still ahead, with 56 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lyrik against Lyriq, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lyrik Lyriq

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

Lyrik has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1995 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Lyrik had 56 and Lyriq had 53.

Side by side

  Lyrik Lyriq
Total US births 2,1591,021
Most in one year 16475
Babies in 2025 5653
Estimated living today 2,1001,000
Median age today 1110
Peak year 20132012
Best rank 1,880th girls2,597th girls
Rank in 2025 4,878th3,577th
First recorded 19952002
Girls / boys 1,288 / 871862 / 159

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.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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