Lyra
573
Babies in 2024
+120%
10-year change
2022
Peak · 641
-3%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Lyra
Lyra is a rising UK girl's name. Registrations in 2024 (573) are up 120% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Lyra reached its peak in 2022, when 641 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #78 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 573 represents 89% of the peak.
Across 25 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 5,824 girls have been officially registered with the name Lyra in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 4,737 girls were registered with the name, starting from 261 in 2014 and ending at 573 in 2024.