Lindee
#14,209 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Lindee has been given to 419 babies in the U.S. since 1954. In 2025 it ranked #14,209 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1985, with 15 recorded.
Babies named Lindee, 2025
1 in 553,000
Lindee over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Lindee?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 268,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #14,209
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Lindee sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lindee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Lindees were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Lindee was born before 1989 — so the typical Lindee is around 36 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 23.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 31.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 419
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 23.4% of all recorded uses (98).
Is Lindee rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −342
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.86×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 40.0%
- Peak was 1985 (15)
- Years since peak
- 40
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.3% average annual change
Spellings of Lindee
Lindee is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 86.2% against Lindee's 0.02%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Lindee around the world
Where Lindee ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia1955–1977#357in 1977
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Lindee by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Lindee
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Lindee
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.