# Lyman (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/lyman/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˈlaɪ.mən/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Lymon, Liman |
| US babies named this | 8,559 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 8,559 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 17 | 5,390 |
| 2011 | 6 | 11,728 |
| 2012 | 6 | 11,709 |
| 2013 | 8 | 9,337 |
| 2014 | 13 | 6,498 |
| 2015 | 12 | 6,926 |
| 2016 | 16 | 5,694 |
| 2017 | 15 | 5,963 |
| 2018 | 7 | 10,333 |
| 2019 | 8 | 9,411 |
| 2020 | 9 | 8,479 |
| 2021 | 11 | 7,409 |
| 2022 | 8 | 9,527 |
| 2023 | 5 | 13,422 |
| 2025 | 6 | 11,484 |

## People named Lyman

- Lyman Spitzer, American astronomer (1914–1997)
- Lyman Abbott, American theologian, editor, author (1835–1922)
- Lyman Lemnitzer, American general (1899–1988)
- Lyman James Briggs, American engineer (1874–1963)
- Lyman Hall, American physician (1724-1790)
- Lyman Beecher, American Presbyterian minister and American Temperance Society co-founder (1775–1863)
- Lyman Hine, bobsledder (1888–1930)
- Lyman J. Gage, American financier and 42nd Secretary of the Treasury (1836–1927)
- Vernon Lyman Kellogg, American entomologist, evolutionary biologist, science administrator and author (1867-1937
- Lyman Ward, actor
- Lyman Page, American astronomer, physicist, and university teacher (born 1957)
- Ray Lyman Wilbur, American physician and politician (1875–1949); president of Stanford University from 1933 

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.