Boy Names Ending In -Lyn
Boys' names ending in -lyn, ranked by how many babies actually got them — not by editorial preference — plus which ones are climbing and how the ending itself has moved.
- Share of boys, 2025
- 0.05%
- vs 0.04% in 2000
- Names in use
- 69
- 177 recorded since 1880
- Ending peaked
- 2009
- at 0.07% of names
- Most popular now
- Daelyn
- of 69 in use
How -lyn has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name ending in -lyn, year by year. Plotted as a share rather than a count — raw counts track how many babies were born, so every ending would appear to peak in 1957.
| Save name | Name & meaning | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23#4,440 | Down 691 rank positions in five years | 1933 | |||
| 16#5,747 | Up 746 rank positions in five years | 1916 | |||
| 16#5,628 | Up 2,497 rank positions in five years | 1939 | |||
| 8#9,157 | Up 713 rank positions in five years | 1930 | |||
| 37#3,191 | Down 951 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 20#4,931 | Down 972 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 11#7,375 | Down 1,560 rank positions in five years | 2001 | |||
| 19#5,103 | Down 2,058 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 39#3,093 | Down 1,022 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 13#6,534 | Down 2,086 rank positions in five years | 2002 | |||
| 9#8,830 | Down 3,997 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 49#2,651 | Up 495 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 9#8,380 | Down 185 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 19#5,150 | Down 2,433 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 28#3,868 | Down 1,570 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 12#6,961 | Down 1,411 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 16#5,644 | Down 2,219 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 10#7,748 | Down 2,263 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 22#4,574 | Down 984 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 24#4,303 | Up 2,116 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 17#5,431 | Down 1,133 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 12#6,858 | Down 1,590 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 30#3,750 | Up 3,731 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 23#4,493 | Down 1,480 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 16#5,664 | Down 2,075 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 7#10,207 | new | 2005 | |||
| 15#5,924 | Up 460 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 9#8,405 | Down 770 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 24#4,380 | Up 644 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 16#5,820 | Down 622 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 13#6,729 | Up 1,215 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 14#6,437 | Up 172 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 17#5,601 | Up 3,120 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 17#5,514 | Up 5,921 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 7#10,267 | Down 2,419 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 9#8,843 | new | 2012 | |||
| 10#7,986 | Up 459 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 8#9,289 | new | 2024 | |||
| 8#9,648 | Up 891 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 9#8,651 | Up 1,529 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 9#8,849 | new | 2019 | |||
| 7#10,666 | Up 1,323 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 7#9,871 | new | 1998 | |||
| 10#8,207 | new | 2023 | |||
| 7#9,853 | Up 937 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 10#8,177 | Up 2,295 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 8#9,367 | Down 165 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 8#9,650 | Up 4,290 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 8#9,697 | new | 2025 | |||
| 7#10,428 | new | 2025 |
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Biggest -lyn names of all time
By total applications since 1880 — a different list from the one above, because it counts every generation, not just this one.
Every other ending
Sources & methodology
Rankings and counts come from official birth card-application data, 1880–2025. Counts are card applications rather than births, and any name given to fewer than 5 babies of one sex in a year is not published — so “—” means genuinely uncommon, never invalid. The “climbing fastest” row ranks by five-year rank movement as a ratio, and a name must be inside the top 1,000 with at least 200 applications in 2025 to qualify — a looser gate than the site-wide trending list uses, because inside a single ending the stricter one leaves some endings empty. Names ending in -lyn also count toward names ending in N — a suffix is a slice of its last letter, not a separate universe. Ending shares are measured over listed names only, and the 25-year comparison is a generation rather than five years because ending fashion moves far more slowly than any one name.