Lyn

Where Lyn comes from

Lyn 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.

Along the way
  1. 1915
    First appearance
    #2,900 among girls, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1924
    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. 1947
    Lyn St. James born
    American race car driver
  4. 1948
    Lyn Collins born
    American musician
  5. 1953
    Peak, #533
    261 babies named Lyn — more than any year before or since.
  6. 1968
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #934.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Lyn Collins · American musician, 1948–2005
  • Lyn St. James · American race car driver, born 1947
  • Lyn Evans · Welsh physicist, born 1945
  • Lyn Lemaire · American triathlete, born 1951
  • Lyn Murray · English-born American composer of music for radio, film and television, 1909–1989

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.