Lindy

Where Lindy comes from

Diminutives with -y.
— Wiktionary's entry for Lindy
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1885
    First appearance
    #1,047 among girls, 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 it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1979
    Peak, #586
    310 babies named Lindy — more than any year before or since.
  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 known Lindy turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.