Lyndsay

Where Lyndsay comes from

Lyndsay 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. 1973
    First appearance
    #8,423 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1977
    Lyndsay Belisle born
    Olympic wrestler
  3. 1983
    Peak, #495
    393 babies named Lyndsay — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1985
    Lyndsay Wall born
    American ice hockey player
  5. 1995
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,090.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Lyndsay Belisle · Olympic wrestler, born 1977
  • Lyndsay Wall · American ice hockey player, born 1985
  • Lyndsay Faye · author, born 1960
  • Lyndsay Kohlet · Australian soccer player, born 1988
  • Lyndsay Petruny · Sports reporter, Sideline reporter, born 1986

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.