Lyndsey
#7,491 for girls in 2025, 14 births · Last seen for boys in 2004 at #11,356
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1983 · 669 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 14,388since 1964
Lyndsey over time
Rank among girls' names. Lyndsey has never cracked the top 300 here.
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 | #7,491 | 14 | — | |
| 2024 | #7,594 | 14 | — | |
| 2023 | #5,752 | 21 | — | |
| 2022 | #5,465 | 23 | — | |
| 2021 | #6,174 | 19 | — | |
| 2020 | #5,314 | 23 | — | |
| 2019 | #5,306 | 24 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,853 | 38 | — | |
| 2017 | #3,627 | 42 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,139 | 52 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,650 | 42 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,041 | 55 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,769 | 62 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,286 | 82 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,156 | 88 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,886 | 107 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,830 | 117 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,405 | 169 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,453 | 161 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,143 | 214 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,011 | 241 | — | |
| 2004 | #926 | 260 | #11,356 | 5 |
| 2003 | #903 | 264 | — | |
| 2002 | #891 | 252 | — | |
| 2001 | #718 | 340 | — | |
| 2000 | #637 | 392 | — | |
| 1999 | #637 | 370 | — | |
| 1998 | #627 | 372 | — | |
| 1997 | #561 | 417 | — | |
| 1996 | #593 | 385 | — | |
| 1995 | #561 | 413 | — | |
| 1994 | #494 | 504 | — | |
| 1993 | #504 | 490 | — | |
| 1992 | #455 | 546 | — | |
| 1991 | #424 | 601 | — | |
| 1990 | #384 | 687 | — | |
| 1989 | #408 | 606 | — | |
| 1988 | #367 | 660 | — | |
| 1987 | #376 | 623 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #359 | 663 | #5,926 | 6 |
| 1985 | #366 | 635 | — | |
| 1984 | #350 | 657 | #5,561 | 6 |
| 1983 | #343 | 669 | #6,238 | 5 |
| 1982 | #365 | 634 | — | |
| 1981 | #487 | 423 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #668 | 264 | — | |
| 1979 | #710 | 239 | — | |
| 1978 | #849 | 174 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,183 | 104 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,840 | 50 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,357 | 34 | — | |
| 1974 | #3,426 | 19 | — | |
| 1973 | #6,080 | 8 | — | |
| 1972 | #5,480 | 9 | — | |
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| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 | — | |
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| 1966 | #5,809 | 6 | — | |
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| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Lyndsey! It came in at #6,767, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1964–1965, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Lyndsey is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Utah#329 · 1 in 1,896
- Iowa#372 · 1 in 3,098
- Massachusetts#476 · 1 in 4,236
- Ohio#495 · 1 in 4,597
- Minnesota#506 · 1 in 5,308
Best ever in a state: #106 in Wyoming, 1987.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | #329 | 8 | 1 in 1,896 |
| Iowa | #372 | 6 | 1 in 3,098 |
| Massachusetts | #476 | 7 | 1 in 4,236 |
| Ohio | #495 | 15 | 1 in 4,597 |
| Minnesota | #506 | 5 | 1 in 5,308 |
| Michigan | #577 | 11 | 1 in 5,232 |
| Indiana | #591 | 6 | 1 in 5,799 |
| Georgia | #669 | 6 | 1 in 5,375 |
| North Carolina | #721 | 5 | 1 in 6,474 |
| California | #763 | 24 | 1 in 6,389 |
| Texas | #928 | 12 | 1 in 8,616 |
| Illinois | #983 | 7 | 1 in 10,129 |
| New York | #1,415 | 6 | 1 in 16,388 |
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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 Lyndsey
- 103 spots since 2024 (#7,594 → #7,491)
- 2,177 spots since 2020 (#5,314 → #7,491)
- 3,841 spots since 2015 (#3,650 → #7,491)
- Biggest jump: 334 spots in 1978 (#1,183 → #849)
- Biggest drop: 173 spots in 2002 (#718 → #891)
- Debuted 1964
- Peaked 1983 at #343 (669 births)
- Births halved by 2002, 19 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 27 yrs · run 1978–2004
- Highest: 1 in 2,497 girls born in 1983 were named Lyndsey (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 114,805 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 40.5% of all girls named Lyndsey (5,834) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 16 | #5,809 (1966) | #6,682 |
| 1970s | 637 | #710 (1979) | #2,741 |
| 1980s | 5,834 | #343 (1983) | #409 |
| 1990s | 4,785 | #384 (1990) | #524 |
| 2000s | 2,410 | #637 (2000) | #1,092 |
| 2010s | 592 | #1,886 (2010) | #3,171 |
| 2020s | 114 | #5,314 (2020) | #6,298 |
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.
Lyndsey in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
More about 1978
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1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 8,804 of them was named Lyndsey, which outranked 92.6% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #846Alexa175
- #846Gillian175
- #846Tawnya175
- #849Lyndsey174
- #849Ella174
- #849Gayle174
- #849Mellisa174
- #855Christian173
- #855Michaela173
- #857Daniela172
Tied with 5 names at #849; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.