Lindy

Where Lindy comes from

Diminutives with -y.
— Wiktionary's entry for Lindy
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Lindy through the years
  1. 1885
    First appearance
    #1,047 among girls with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1940
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
  3. 1979
    Peak, #586
    310 babies named Lindy, the most in any year.
  4. 1985
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,019.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given names Linda, Lindsay, and Linnet.
  • A unisex given name.
Namesakes

No widely recognized namesakes for Lindy in Wikidata.

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.