Lynsey

Where Lynsey comes from

Lynsey 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. 1950
    Lynsey de Paul born
    English singer-songwriter
  2. 1966
    First appearance
    #5,273 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1982
    Peak, #693
    254 babies named Lynsey — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1990
    Lynsey Sharp born
    Scottish middle-distance runner
  5. 1997
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,368.
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Lynsey de Paul · English singer-songwriter, 1950–2014
  • Lynsey Sharp · Scottish middle-distance runner, born 1990
  • Lynsey Addario · American photojournalist, born 1973
  • Lynsey Bartilson · American actress, born 1983
  • Lynsey Baxter · British actress, born 1959

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.