Girl Names Ending In -Lyn
Girls' 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 girls, 2025
- 2.0%
- vs 2.4% in 2000
- Names in use
- 334
- 992 recorded since 1880
- Ending peaked
- 2011
- at 3.2% of names
- Most popular now
- Evelyn
- of 334 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9,123#8 | Up 1 rank positions in five years | 1921 | |||
| 185#1,222 | Down 275 rank positions in five years | 1947 | |||
| 356#761 | Down 127 rank positions in five years | 1947 | |||
| 340#802 | Down 314 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 225#1,077 | Down 400 rank positions in five years | 1993 | |||
| 2,300#118 | Down 64 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 848#360 | Up 18 rank positions in five years | 1953 | |||
| 3,362#71 | Down 5 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 788#393 | Down 124 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 80#2,286 | Down 578 rank positions in five years | 1951 | |||
| 71#2,492 | Down 859 rank positions in five years | 1998 | |||
| 262#972 | Down 371 rank positions in five years | 2005 | |||
| 1,192#260 | Down 119 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 662#464 | Down 138 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 851#355 | Down 117 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 237#1,051 | Down 202 rank positions in five years | 1955 | |||
| 273#946 | Down 127 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 151#1,433 | Down 61 rank positions in five years | 1956 | |||
| 142#1,504 | Down 388 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 563#537 | Up 10 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 659#466 | Down 145 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 592#502 | Down 131 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 131#1,601 | Down 492 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 259#979 | Down 251 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 110#1,825 | Down 629 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 98#1,966 | Down 963 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 224#1,080 | Down 393 rank positions in five years | 2011 | |||
| 256#988 | Down 519 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 151#1,430 | Down 355 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 72#2,480 | Down 1,093 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 204#1,137 | Down 423 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 72#2,469 | Down 873 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 456#637 | Down 75 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 254#996 | Up 1,016 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 169#1,318 | Down 87 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 101#1,918 | Down 438 rank positions in five years | 2012 | |||
| 136#1,549 | Down 449 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 84#2,194 | Down 948 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 421#673 | Up 519 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 79#2,303 | Down 143 rank positions in five years | 2013 | |||
| 94#2,017 | Down 339 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 180#1,249 | Up 158 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 169#1,320 | Up 132 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 170#1,313 | Up 140 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 77#2,355 | Up 470 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 87#2,142 | Down 508 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 95#2,006 | Up 33 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 99#1,947 | Down 216 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 155#1,412 | Up 1,243 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 125#1,664 | Up 1,871 rank positions in five years | 2025 |
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-lyn names climbing fastest
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.