Lyndsey
#7,491 for girls in 2025, 14 births · Last seen for boys in 2004 at #11,356
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1983 · 669 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 14,388since 1964
Lyndsey over time
Rank among girls' names. Lyndsey has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,491 | 14 | — | |
| 2024 | #7,594 | 14 | — | |
| 2023 | #5,752 | 21 | — | |
| 2022 | #5,465 | 23 | — | |
| 2021 | #6,174 | 19 | — | |
| 2020 | #5,314 | 23 | — | |
| 2019 | #5,306 | 24 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,853 | 38 | — | |
| 2017 | #3,627 | 42 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,139 | 52 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,650 | 42 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,041 | 55 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,769 | 62 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,286 | 82 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,156 | 88 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,886 | 107 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,830 | 117 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,405 | 169 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,453 | 161 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,143 | 214 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,011 | 241 | — | |
| 2004 | #926 | 260 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #903 | 264 | — | |
| 2002 | #891 | 252 | — | |
| 2001 | #718 | 340 | — | |
| 2000 | #637 | 392 | — | |
| 1999 | #637 | 370 | — | |
| 1998 | #627 | 372 | — | |
| 1997 | #561 | 417 | — | |
| 1996 | #593 | 385 | — | |
| 1995 | #561 | 413 | — | |
| 1994 | #494 | 504 | — | |
| 1993 | #504 | 490 | — | |
| 1992 | #455 | 546 | — | |
| 1991 | #424 | 601 | — | |
| 1990 | #384 | 687 | — | |
| 1989 | #408 | 606 | — | |
| 1988 | #367 | 660 | — | |
| 1987 | #376 | 623 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #359 | 663 | #5,926 | 6 |
| 1985 | #366 | 635 | — | |
| 1984 | #350 | 657 | #5,561 | 6 |
| 1983 | #343 | 669 | #6,238 | 5 |
| 1982 | #365 | 634 | — | |
| 1981 | #487 | 423 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #668 | 264 | — | |
| 1979 | #710 | 239 | — | |
| 1978 | #849 | 174 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,183 | 104 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,840 | 50 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,357 | 34 | — | |
| 1974 | #3,426 | 19 | — | |
| 1973 | #6,080 | 8 | — | |
| 1972 | #5,480 | 9 | — | |
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| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 | — | |
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| 1966 | #5,809 | 6 | — | |
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| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Lyndsey! It came in at #6,767, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1964–1965, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Lyndsey is popular in 1986
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Indiana#162 · 1 in 939
- Nevada#181 · 1 in 847
- Oklahoma#209 · 1 in 1,174
- Kentucky#212 · 1 in 1,233
- Ohio#232 · 1 in 1,477
Best ever in a state: #106 in Wyoming, 1987.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana | #162 | 35 | 1 in 939 |
| Nevada | #181 | 6 | 1 in 847 |
| Oklahoma | #209 | 16 | 1 in 1,174 |
| Kentucky | #212 | 17 | 1 in 1,233 |
| Ohio | #232 | 46 | 1 in 1,477 |
| Idaho | #234 | 5 | 1 in 1,110 |
| Missouri | #246 | 20 | 1 in 1,570 |
| Kansas | #248 | 10 | 1 in 1,449 |
| Arkansas | #249 | 8 | 1 in 1,552 |
| Iowa | #251 | 10 | 1 in 1,595 |
| West Virginia | #252 | 6 | 1 in 1,574 |
| Hawaii | #264 | 5 | 1 in 976 |
| Wisconsin | #264 | 16 | 1 in 1,855 |
| Massachusetts | #274 | 19 | 1 in 1,847 |
| Florida | #277 | 37 | 1 in 1,795 |
| Minnesota | #282 | 14 | 1 in 1,977 |
| Michigan | #286 | 29 | 1 in 1,949 |
| North Carolina | #286 | 19 | 1 in 1,871 |
| Nebraska | #293 | 5 | 1 in 1,904 |
| Pennsylvania | #319 | 30 | 1 in 2,291 |
| Illinois | #335 | 31 | 1 in 2,288 |
| Washington | #342 | 13 | 1 in 2,092 |
| Mississippi | #344 | 7 | 1 in 1,964 |
| Louisiana | #345 | 14 | 1 in 2,014 |
| Alabama | #346 | 10 | 1 in 2,134 |
| Georgia | #348 | 16 | 1 in 2,355 |
| Colorado | #349 | 10 | 1 in 2,183 |
| Arizona | #362 | 11 | 1 in 2,129 |
| Texas | #364 | 58 | 1 in 2,270 |
| Virginia | #386 | 12 | 1 in 2,811 |
| Tennessee | #400 | 9 | 1 in 3,061 |
| New York | #580 | 24 | 1 in 4,520 |
| California | #596 | 47 | 1 in 4,419 |
| New Jersey | #596 | 8 | 1 in 5,249 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Lyndsey
- 103 spots since 2024 (#7,594 → #7,491)
- 2,177 spots since 2020 (#5,314 → #7,491)
- 3,841 spots since 2015 (#3,650 → #7,491)
- Biggest jump: 334 spots in 1978 (#1,183 → #849)
- Biggest drop: 173 spots in 2002 (#718 → #891)
- Debuted 1964
- Peaked 1983 at #343 (669 births)
- Births halved by 2002, 19 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 27 yrs · run 1978–2004
- Highest: 1 in 2,497 girls born in 1983 were named Lyndsey (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 114,805 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 40.5% of all girls named Lyndsey (5,834) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 16 | #5,809 (1966) | #6,682 |
| 1970s | 637 | #710 (1979) | #2,741 |
| 1980s | 5,834 | #343 (1983) | #409 |
| 1990s | 4,785 | #384 (1990) | #524 |
| 2000s | 2,410 | #637 (2000) | #1,092 |
| 2010s | 592 | #1,886 (2010) | #3,171 |
| 2020s | 114 | #5,314 (2020) | #6,298 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Lyndsey in 1986
Top girls' names in 1986
Top boys' names in 1986
More about 1986
girls
1,715,547 girls got a published name in 1986; 1 in 2,588 of them was named Lyndsey, which outranked 97.2% of the 12,836 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,841,515 boys got a published name in 1986; 1 in 306,919 of them was named Lyndsey, which outranked 24.3% of the 7,830 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #5,332Zebulin7
- #5,332Zeeshan7
- #5,332Ziad7
- #5,926Lyndsey6
- #5,926Aaric6
- #5,926Aarin6
- #5,926Abayomi6
- #6,721Aalok5
- #6,721Aamer5
- #6,721Aaronjames5
Tied with 794 names at #5,926; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.