Lyra is an English name, that is based on the Greek word ‘lyra’ meaning ‘lyre’ or ‘harp’. It is a rare name, that is known since at least the late 19th century.
Lyra is a first name for girls.
The name Lyra isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Lyra ranks 645. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 3 were named Lyra. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Lyra.
Lyra is an English name, that is based on the Greek word ‘lyra’ meaning ‘lyre’ or ‘harp’. It is a rare name, that is known since at least the late 19th century.
Lyra is a constellation... of the northern sky and one of the most famous. It was already known in ancient times as one of the 48 constellations.
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 four letters, the name Lyra is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. 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.
If your name is Lyra 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Lyra, you can simply say:
Lion
Yoyo
Rocket
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lyra
Lyra
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
Y
R
A
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
R
A
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. Lyra sounds like this:
