Given name & surname
Lys
Lys is connected with Lis and Liz in English naming traditions.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In English use, Lys may be used as a spelling variant of Lis. In English use, Lys may be used as a spelling variant of Liz. This connection is uncertain.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2018. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Lys through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 37
- 0 boys · 37 girls
- Most popular year
- 2018
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #16,345 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 16,345 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 11 in 2018. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 195 as a first name in 2020; 279 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Lys’s family of names
Lys has an alternative spelling in Liz. Lys has an alternative spelling in Lis.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Lys
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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