Lindley

Where Lindley comes from

Lindley hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1745
    Lindley Murray born
    American grammarian and lawyer
  2. 1864
    Lindley Miller Garrison born
    lawyer, U.S. Secretary of War
  3. 1943
    First appearance
    #4,691 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 1976
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  5. 1988
    Peak, #1,491
    91 babies named Lindley — more than any year before or since.
  6. 1989
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,879.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Lindley Miller Garrison · lawyer, U.S. Secretary of War, 1864–1932
  • Lindley Murray · American grammarian and lawyer, 1745–1826
  • Lindley Beckworth · American politician, 1913–1984
  • Lindley H. Hadley · American politician, 1861–1948
  • Lindley Evans · Australian musician, 1895–1982

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.