Nameling

Lyniah

Gender
Girl
Say it
luh-NY-uh
Origin
Modern
US rank, 2025
#13,203 for girls

Lyniah is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).

Where does Lyniah come from?

Modern: blend of Lyn and the -iah ending

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

Lyniah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Lyniah in the US?

Rank in 2025
#13,203among girls
Babies in 2025
6about 1 in 270,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Lyniah, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 2009, with 24 girls. It first appears in the records in 2001.

Half of all the girls named Lyniah in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.

2001Busiest: 24 in 20092025
Lyniah in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20256#13,203
20246#13,472
20235#15,188
20220–
20215#15,246
20209#10,245
201912#8,592
20185#15,677
20179#10,685
201611#9,408
201513#8,443
20145#16,507
201313#8,575
201212#9,105
201119#6,561
201017#7,214
200924#5,707
200822#6,127
200716#7,729
200610#10,606
200516#7,133
20049#10,684
200311#9,043
20020–
20018#11,013

Names like Lyniah

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

Names related to Lyniah

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Lyniah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/lyniah, updated 20 October 2026.