Lyra

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Lyra: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Lyra: Recorded since 1999, it reached #78 in 2022, and it stood at #213 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
46times a registrar ranked it
27years from first to last
#78highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1999–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1999	#3900
2001	#2783
2002	#2105
2003	#1843
2004	#1252
2005	#790
2006	#753
2007	#793
2008	#510
2009	#304
2010	#372
2011	#327
2012	#255
2013	#218
2014	#205
2015	#222
2016	#212
2017	#183
2018	#142
2019	#150
2020	#92
2021	#80
2022	#78
2023	#80
2024	#83

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 25 of the 26 years from 1999 to 2024.

In 2024: #83 among girls in England and Wales, #108 among girls in Scotland, #223 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #407 among girls in Northern Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1999–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1999
First recorded at #3900 among girls in England and Wales in 1999 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1999–2024
Highest recorded position: #78 among girls in England and Wales, in 2022 (recorded 1999–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #213 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Lyra appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 25 years beginning in 1999, and has registered 5,824 births with the name.

Lyra across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Lyra's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3900 (1999)	#78 (2022)	#83 (2024)	25 of 26	5,824 (1999–2024)	641 (2022)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#893 (2009)	#213 (2025)	#213 (2025)	15 of 17	145 (2009–2025)	20 (2025)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#383 (2012)	#302 (2023)	#407 (2024)	5 of 13	19 (2012–2024)	5 (2023)

Lyra by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Lyra in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000s	387	9 of 10	43
2010s	2,438	10 of 10	244
2020sbusiest	2,996	5 of 10	599

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 599 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2019 and 2020, when recorded births rose by 217, from 342 to 559.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Lyra appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1999 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #78 in England and Wales in 2022.

Lyra's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#83	573	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#80	593	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#78	641	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#80	630	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#92	559	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#150	342	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#142	362	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#183	293	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#212	248	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#222	235	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#205	261	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#218	236	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#255	192	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#327	147	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#372	122	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#304	152	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#510	76	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#793	41	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#753	41	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#790	36	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1252	18	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1843	10	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2105	8	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2783	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#407	3	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#302	5	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#354	4	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#446	3	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#383	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#213	20	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#223	19	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#296	13	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#266	16	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#242	19	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#294	14	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#716	4	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#873	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#431	10	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#584	6	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#587	6	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	5	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#937	3	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#893	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#108	40	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1999 and 2025, ranked in 26 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #78, first reached in 2022.

It held a top-100 place in 5 years, 5 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 641 births, registered in England and Wales in 2022.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2009, and 25 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Campbell · #78, 31y
Miley · #79, 27y
Oliwia · #79, 31y
Ellis · #76, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Abi · #78, 30y
Campbell · #78, 31y
Demi · #78, 34y
Joey · #78, 32y

Lyra was ranked #78 in England and Wales · Girls in 2022. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Lyra and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Lyra without appearing here.

Lyra moved ahead of

Blake Compare
In 2006 they stood at #3900 and #3900 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #793 and #5201.
Josefine Compare
In 2002 they stood at #3900 and #3225 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #1843 and #4373.
Debra Compare
In 2001 they stood at #2783 and #2226 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #2105 and #4137.
George Compare
In 2001 they stood at #3900 and #3225 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #2105 and #4137.

Moved ahead of Lyra

Harper Compare
In 2012 they stood at #255 and #284 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #218 and #160.

Moved the opposite way to Lyra

Abigail Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lyra went from #3900 to #83 while Abigail went from #20 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lyra went from #3900 to #83 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lyra went from #3900 to #83 while Aisling went from #410 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lyra went from #3900 to #83 while Alex went from #204 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Lyra

Ada Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lyra went from #3900 to #83 and Ada from #2189 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lyra went from #3900 to #83 and Alma from #3225 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lyra went from #3900 to #83 and Alyssa from #483 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lyra went from #3900 to #83 and Amalie from #2770 to #1128.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1999 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #78 in England and Wales in 2022. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Lyra

Lyra at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Lyra across 3 official records

Lyra by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Lyra appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Lyra

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Lyra moved ahead of

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Lyra at a glance

Lyra across 3 official records

Lyra by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Lyra appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Lyra

Lyra and the names beside it

Lyra moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Lyra

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Moved the same way as Lyra