Lynette

Where Lynette comes from

Anglicized form of Welsh Eluned, first used by Tennyson in the Idylls of the King(1859-85), altered by folk etymology to be Lynn + -ette.
— Wiktionary's entry for Lynette
  • Welsh
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1897
    First appearance
    #1,385 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1959
    Lynette Woodard born
    American basketball player
  3. 1965
    Peak, #225
    1,413 babies named Lynette — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1974
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #349.
  5. 1977
    Lynette Yiadom Boakye born
    British artist
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Welsh.
Namesakes
  • Lynette Woodard · American basketball player, born 1959
  • Lynette Yiadom Boakye · British artist, born 1977
  • Lynette Fromme · attempted assassin of Gerald Ford, born 1948
  • Lynette Davies · Welsh actress, 1948–1993
  • Lynette Burger · cyclist, born 1980

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.