Lyric is from the Greek *lyrikos* ("of the lyre") — referring to verse meant to be sung. As a given name, Lyric is a modern American word-name that surged in the 1990s alongside Harmony, Melody, and Cadence. **A top-500 US baby name since 1998, peaking at #406 in 2007**. **Lyric Ross (born 2003)** — **American actress; played Deja, the foster-then-adopted daughter of Randall and Beth Pearson on NBC's *This Is Us* (2017-2022) — the show received 39 Primetime Emmy Award nominations including Best Drama Series, and her performance is widely cited as one of the most-acclaimed young-actor performances of the 2010s**. **Critics' Choice Award nomination (2020)**. **Lyric Bent** is male (Canadian actor). **Lyric McHenry** (1992-2018) — American filmmaker. **Lyric Joi** — American author. **"Lyric" as a given name first entered the US top-1000 in 1998 and has steadily climbed through the 21st century, reflecting the post-2000s American naming trend of unisex word-names (Sonnet, Story, Verse, Cadence, Melody)**. **Sonnet, Story, and Verse are all in the library — Lyric completes the modern poetic-name family**. **Lyric** also functions as a unisex name; in some 21st-century US registries it appears for boys at about 30% the rate of girls.
Featured throughout 21st-century American culture and naming trends.
Lyric reduces to seven — the number of song.