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Lyna

Girl · LEE-na · Arabic

Lyna is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “tender; young palm tree”. In 2025 it ranked 7,883rd for girls in the US (13 babies).

What does Lyna mean?

Arabic: spelling of Lina; Lina is also a European short form of names like Carolina

“tender; young palm tree”

In Arabic lina names a kind of palm tree mentioned in the Qur'an (59:5).

Say it
LEE-na

Is Lyna a girl's or a boy's name?

Lyna is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Lyna in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2016, with 9 girls.

Half of all the girls named Lyna in the UK since 1996 were born between 2008 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.

2002Busiest: 9 in 20162024
Lyna in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20244#4,907
20230–
20225#4,168
20210–
20206#3,630
20193#5,804
20186#3,702
20179#2,864
20169#2,893
20150–
20144#4,888
20134#4,953
20120–
20110–
20105#4,220
20095#4,141
20087#3,203
20073#5,415
20064#4,357
20054#4,150
20044#3,916
20033#4,560
20023#4,284

How popular is Lyna in the US?

Rank in 2025
#7,883among girls
Babies in 2025
13about 1 in 120,000 girls
Five-year trend
Risingup 26% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 13 girls in the US were named Lyna, making it the 7,883rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,208th. Its busiest year was 2004, with 30 girls. It first appears in the records in 1911.

2025 had fewer girls named Lyna than any year since 2018.

Half of all the girls named Lyna in the US since 1880 were born between 1974 and 2010, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 1,866 girls in the US were given Lyna or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #195, up from #7,883 for this spelling alone.

1911Busiest: 30 in 20042025
Lyna in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202513#7,883
202427#4,890
202314#7,635
202225#5,169
202116#6,962
202015#7,208
201915#7,338
201813#8,142
201712#8,772
201614#7,985
201521#6,034
201423#5,623
201313#8,575
201221#6,107
20119#11,175
201015#7,877
200922#6,088
200828#5,140
200725#5,523
200625#5,382
200528#4,700
200430#4,488
200320#5,790
200222#5,250
200113#7,717
20009#9,867
199915#6,478
199811#8,011
199713#6,839
19968#9,576
199514#6,252
199413#6,666
199320#4,820
199218#5,260
199123#4,323
19908#9,241
198915#5,539
198811#6,661
198716#4,853
198617#4,536
198513#5,346
19846#9,139
198317#4,285
198212#5,532
19817#8,126
198011#5,911
19795#10,208
19780–
19775#9,650
19765#9,282
19755#9,065
19748#6,257
19739#5,578
19729#5,479
19717#6,617
19709#5,412
19697#5,972
19686#6,244
19677#5,456
19667#5,272
19658#4,830
19640–
19636#5,890
19620–
19618#4,881
19608#4,772
19596#5,565
19580–
19570–
19567#4,836
19558#4,375
19549#3,965
195314#2,920
19527#4,482
195110#3,481
19506#4,736
19490–
19488#3,881
194713#2,897
19460–
194511#2,741
19449#3,138
19436#4,195
19420–
19418#3,250
19400–
19390–
19380–
19370–
19360–
19350–
19340–
19330–
19327#3,566
19310–
19300–
19290–
19285#4,723
19275#4,803
19260–
19255#4,971
19240–
19230–
19220–
19210–
19206#4,396
19195#4,812
19180–
19170–
19168#3,256
19150–
19140–
19130–
19120–
19117#1,956

Names like Lyna

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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