Lyndsay
Last seen for girls in 2022 at #9,680
- Peak · girls
- 1983 · 393 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,716since 1973
Lyndsay over time
Rank among girls' names. Lyndsay has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | |
| 2024 | — | |
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| 2022 | #9,680 | 10 |
| 2021 | — | |
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 |
| 2018 | — | |
| 2017 | #8,299 | 13 |
| 2016 | #9,411 | 11 |
| 2015 | #9,481 | 11 |
| 2014 | #7,636 | 15 |
| 2013 | #11,969 | 8 |
| 2012 | #5,114 | 27 |
| 2011 | #6,148 | 21 |
| 2010 | #4,608 | 31 |
| 2009 | #3,737 | 42 |
| 2008 | #3,645 | 44 |
| 2007 | #3,023 | 58 |
| 2006 | #2,815 | 62 |
| 2005 | #2,140 | 86 |
| 2004 | #2,155 | 83 |
| 2003 | #2,260 | 75 |
| 2002 | #2,263 | 72 |
| 2001 | #1,887 | 92 |
| 2000 | #1,431 | 128 |
| 1999 | #1,461 | 118 |
| 1998 | #1,373 | 125 |
| 1997 | #1,232 | 145 |
| 1996 | #1,275 | 136 |
| 1995 | #1,090 | 163 |
| 1994 | #926 | 204 |
| 1993 | #908 | 212 |
| 1992 | #777 | 265 |
| 1991 | #783 | 261 |
| 1990 | #713 | 294 |
| 1989 | #664 | 306 |
| 1988 | #600 | 333 |
| 1987 | #585 | 337 |
| 1986 | #567 | 349 |
| 1985 | #514 | 392 |
| 1984 | #532 | 362 |
| 1983 | #495 | 393 |
| 1982 | #502 | 403 |
| 1981 | #644 | 275 |
| 1980 | #790 | 208 |
| 1979 | #912 | 162 |
| 1978 | #1,096 | 119 |
| 1977 | #1,075 | 121 |
| 1976 | #1,244 | 90 |
| 1975 | #2,969 | 24 |
| 1974 | #5,011 | 11 |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Lyndsay! It came in at #8,423, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2018, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Lyndsay is popular in 1986
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- West Virginia#285 · 1 in 1,889
- Massachusetts#285 · 1 in 1,950
- Connecticut#313 · 1 in 2,166
- Kentucky#337 · 1 in 2,619
- Utah#353 · 1 in 1,996
Best ever in a state: #143 in Rhode Island, 1982.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | #285 | 18 | 1 in 1,950 |
| West Virginia | #285 | 5 | 1 in 1,889 |
| Connecticut | #313 | 8 | 1 in 2,166 |
| Kentucky | #337 | 8 | 1 in 2,619 |
| Utah | #353 | 7 | 1 in 1,996 |
| Michigan | #361 | 21 | 1 in 2,692 |
| Ohio | #362 | 24 | 1 in 2,831 |
| Pennsylvania | #364 | 25 | 1 in 2,749 |
| Indiana | #387 | 11 | 1 in 2,988 |
| New Jersey | #398 | 14 | 1 in 2,999 |
| Oregon | #407 | 6 | 1 in 2,559 |
| Oklahoma | #445 | 6 | 1 in 3,130 |
| Virginia | #469 | 9 | 1 in 3,748 |
| Minnesota | #491 | 6 | 1 in 4,612 |
| Wisconsin | #512 | 6 | 1 in 4,946 |
| North Carolina | #532 | 8 | 1 in 4,445 |
| Louisiana | #559 | 7 | 1 in 4,028 |
| Maryland | #567 | 5 | 1 in 4,904 |
| Tennessee | #616 | 5 | 1 in 5,511 |
| Missouri | #635 | 5 | 1 in 6,281 |
| Illinois | #649 | 13 | 1 in 5,457 |
| Florida | #662 | 12 | 1 in 5,536 |
| Washington | #675 | 5 | 1 in 5,440 |
| New York | #694 | 18 | 1 in 6,027 |
| Texas | #735 | 21 | 1 in 6,270 |
| Georgia | #796 | 5 | 1 in 7,536 |
| California | #926 | 24 | 1 in 8,654 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Lyndsay
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2022
- Biggest jump: 184 spots in 1979 (#1,096 → #912)
- Biggest drop: 164 spots in 1995 (#926 → #1,090)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 1983 at #495 (393 births)
- Births halved by 1995, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 16 yrs · run 1979–1994
- Highest: 1 in 4,202 girls born in 1982 were named Lyndsay (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 164,013 girls born in 2022 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #495 in 1983, was only 1 in 4,251 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 50.0% of all girls named Lyndsay (3,358) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 532 | #912 (1979) | #2,961 |
| 1980s | 3,358 | #495 (1983) | #589 |
| 1990s | 1,923 | #713 (1990) | #1,054 |
| 2000s | 742 | #1,431 (2000) | #2,536 |
| 2010s | 143 | #4,608 (2010) | #8,496 |
| 2020s | 18 | #9,680 (2022) | #10,385 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Lyndsay in 1986
Top girls' names in 1986
More about 1986
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1,715,547 girls got a published name in 1986; 1 in 4,916 of them was named Lyndsay, which outranked 95.6% of the 12,836 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.