Lynnette

Where Lynnette comes from

The dictionaries list Lynnette as a given name — a female given name from Welsh, variant of Lynette — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Welsh
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1902
    First appearance
    #1,793 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1966
    Peak, #424
    487 babies named Lynnette — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1975
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #699.
  4. 2000
    Lynnette Ferguson born
    New Zealand research scientist and geneticist
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Welsh, variant of Lynette.
Namesakes
  • Lynnette Ferguson · New Zealand research scientist and geneticist, born 2000

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.