Lynden
- #4,067 for girls in 2025, 35 births
- #4,396 for boys in 2025, 23 births
- Given to boys 65.7% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1945 · 18 births
- Debut · boys
- 10 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,492since 1915
Lynden over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,067 | 35 | #4,396 | 23 |
| 2024 | #5,148 | 25 | #5,659 | 16 |
| 2023 | #4,999 | 26 | #4,610 | 22 |
| 2022 | #4,378 | 32 | #4,850 | 20 |
| 2021 | #3,883 | 38 | #4,247 | 24 |
| 2020 | #3,061 | 52 | #4,698 | 20 |
| 2019 | #3,718 | 40 | #4,114 | 25 |
| 2018 | #3,918 | 37 | #3,055 | 38 |
| 2017 | #3,697 | 41 | #3,249 | 35 |
| 2016 | #3,656 | 42 | #3,230 | 35 |
| 2015 | #5,458 | 24 | #3,299 | 34 |
| 2014 | #5,310 | 25 | #2,847 | 41 |
| 2013 | #4,243 | 34 | #3,582 | 29 |
| 2012 | #4,707 | 30 | #3,625 | 29 |
| 2011 | #5,935 | 22 | #3,885 | 26 |
| 2010 | #4,107 | 36 | #3,072 | 37 |
| 2009 | #6,544 | 20 | #3,399 | 32 |
| 2008 | #6,799 | 19 | #4,145 | 24 |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 | #3,793 | 27 |
| 2006 | #9,286 | 12 | #3,686 | 27 |
| 2005 | #6,528 | 18 | #4,062 | 22 |
| 2004 | #8,716 | 12 | #5,007 | 16 |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 | #3,626 | 24 |
| 2002 | #7,045 | 15 | #5,131 | 14 |
| 2001 | #11,020 | 8 | #4,476 | 17 |
| 2000 | #9,163 | 10 | #5,040 | 14 |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 | #4,762 | 14 |
| 1998 | #10,122 | 8 | #3,708 | 19 |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 | #8,110 | 6 |
| 1996 | — | #5,982 | 9 | |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 | #3,693 | 17 |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 | #4,290 | 14 |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 | #4,327 | 13 |
| 1991 | — | #4,760 | 11 | |
| 1990 | — | #4,673 | 11 | |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 | #5,165 | 9 |
| 1988 | — | #4,162 | 11 | |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | #4,239 | 10 |
| 1986 | — | #4,130 | 10 | |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 | #4,698 | 8 |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 | #4,973 | 7 |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | #3,630 | 11 |
| 1982 | — | #5,003 | 7 | |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 | #5,468 | 6 |
| 1980 | — | #6,250 | 5 | |
| 1979 | — | #6,056 | 5 | |
| 1978 | — | — | ||
| 1977 | — | #5,123 | 6 | |
| 1976 | — | #4,935 | 6 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,941 | 8 | |
| 1974 | — | — | ||
| 1973 | — | #5,101 | 5 | |
| 1972 | — | — | ||
| 1971 | — | #4,907 | 5 | |
| 1970 | — | — | ||
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| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | — | #2,784 | 9 | |
| 1965 | — | #3,244 | 7 | |
| 1964 | — | #2,854 | 9 | |
| 1963 | — | #2,115 | 15 | |
| 1962 | — | #2,279 | 13 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,778 | 21 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,728 | 22 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,295 | 13 | |
| 1958 | — | #2,370 | 12 | |
| 1957 | — | #2,093 | 15 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,168 | 14 | |
| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 | #2,219 | 13 |
| 1954 | #5,753 | 5 | #2,207 | 13 |
| 1953 | — | #2,186 | 13 | |
| 1952 | — | #2,251 | 12 | |
| 1951 | #5,414 | 5 | #2,367 | 11 |
| 1950 | #4,738 | 6 | #1,941 | 15 |
| 1949 | — | #1,754 | 18 | |
| 1948 | — | #1,703 | 19 | |
| 1947 | — | #1,850 | 17 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,143 | 12 | |
| 1945 | #4,556 | 5 | #1,581 | 18 |
| 1944 | — | #1,890 | 14 | |
| 1943 | — | #2,074 | 13 | |
| 1942 | — | #1,585 | 20 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,903 | 14 | |
| 1940 | — | #1,894 | 14 | |
| 1939 | — | #2,829 | 7 | |
| 1938 | — | #2,185 | 11 | |
| 1937 | — | #1,992 | 13 | |
| 1936 | — | #3,549 | 5 | |
| 1935 | — | — | ||
| 1934 | — | #2,393 | 10 | |
| 1933 | — | #2,368 | 10 | |
| 1932 | — | #2,638 | 9 | |
| 1931 | — | #3,763 | 5 | |
| 1930 | — | #3,022 | 8 | |
| 1929 | — | #2,766 | 9 | |
| 1928 | — | #2,522 | 11 | |
| 1927 | — | #4,210 | 5 | |
| 1926 | — | — | ||
| 1925 | — | #2,588 | 11 | |
| 1924 | — | #3,867 | 6 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,772 | 10 | |
| 1922 | — | #3,532 | 7 | |
| 1921 | — | #3,214 | 8 | |
| 1920 | — | #2,602 | 11 | |
| 1919 | — | #2,665 | 10 | |
| 1918 | — | #2,882 | 9 | |
| 1917 | — | #3,217 | 7 | |
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| 1915 | — | #2,458 | 10 | |
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First appearance
1915
The first year at least five boys were named Lynden! It came in at #2,458, and was given to 10 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1916, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Lynden is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Lynden in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 1,263 spots since 2024 (#5,659 → #4,396)
- 302 spots since 2020 (#4,698 → #4,396)
- 1,097 spots since 2015 (#3,299 → #4,396)
Rise & fade · boys
30 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 1945 at #1,581 (18 births)
- Births halved by 1964, 19 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 46,851
- Highest: 1 in 46,851 boys born in 2014 were named Lynden (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 74,264 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,581 in 1945, was only 1 in 74,770 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 22.1% of all boys named Lynden (329) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2019
- Mostly boys until 2018, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 36 | #2,458 (1915) | #2,806 |
| 1920s | 78 | #2,522 (1928) | #3,119 |
| 1930s | 78 | #1,992 (1937) | #2,749 |
| 1940s | 159 | #1,581 (1945) | #1,838 |
| 1950s | 131 | #1,941 (1950) | #2,210 |
| 1960s | 96 | #1,728 (1960) | #2,397 |
| 1970s | 35 | #3,941 (1975) | #5,011 |
| 1980s | 84 | #3,630 (1983) | #4,772 |
| 1990s | 124 | #3,693 (1995) | #4,967 |
| 2000s | 217 | #3,399 (2009) | #4,237 |
| 2010s | 329 | #2,847 (2014) | #3,396 |
| 2020s | 125 | #4,247 (2021) | #4,743 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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