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The first name 
Lyanna

Lyanna is a first name for girls.

Lyanna is a well-known but special name!

Lyanna is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,033 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,032 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Lyanna.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Lyanna

Lyanna -
keeping with the times

Lyanna is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Lyanna cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #547 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2019. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Lyanna, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Lyanna seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Lyanna was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Lyanna in 2022 – for some parents the most beautiful name in the world

242 babies were named Lyanna in 2022 - that's 1 in 612,529 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Lyanna ranked 945 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.

Lyanna -
special, but at home in many states

You may not know anyone named Lyanna, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 28 states are home to women and girls named Lyanna. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Lyanna living in one state or another. If your name is Lyanna and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Florida, which has the most people named Lyanna relative to the population, you still have to ask 24,675 women and girls their names before you hear Lyanna as an answer just once.

Lyanna has 6 letters 
and begins with an L

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names – 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A and S.

With six letters, the name Lyanna is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with an L, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which girls' name with L is the most common... the answer is Linda.

Other names with 
L, y, a, n, n and a

If you take all the letters in the name Lyanna – L, y, a, n, n and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Layann or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Lyanna

If your name is Lyanna and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Lyanna

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Lyanna, you can simply say:

Lion

Yoyo

Apple

Nut

Nut

Apple

This is how the name Lyanna is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Lyanna in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Lyanna

Lyanna

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Lyanna

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Lyanna is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

L
Y
A
N
N
A

Have you ever waved the name Lyanna

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

L
Y
A
N
N
A

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Lyanna sounds like this: