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Lindsy

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Lindsy has been given to 2,158 babies in the U.S. since 1974. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1982, with 129 recorded.

Babies named Lindsy, 2024

1 in 478,000

Lindsy over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lindsy: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lindsy means

Lindsy is a given name.

The naming story behind Lindsy

Wikidata records Lindsy as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q86926251, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,153 girls were recorded with the name Lindsy between 1974 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 129 in 1982; its best national rank was #1,094 in 1982.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Lindsy between 1919 and 1919. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1919; its best national rank was #4,530 in 1919.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Lindsy?

Lindsy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 231,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lindsy sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lindsy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lindsys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lindsy was born before 1989 — so the typical Lindsy is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
46.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,153
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 46.6% of all recorded uses (1,004).

Is Lindsy 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1982 (129)
Years since peak
43
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,094
1982

Spellings of Lindsy

Lindsy is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 69.0% against Lindsy's 0.10%.

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.

Where Lindsy is used

Across 1910–2025, Lindsy was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 169,666 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Colorado1 in 100,000
  3. 3Michigan1 in 100,000
  4. 4Ohio1 in 100,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 100,000
  6. 6Utah1 in 100,000
  7. 7Washington1 in 100,000
  8. 8Wisconsin1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Lindsy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lindsy around the world

Where Lindsy 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.

  • France
    1998–2012
    #5,885
    in 2012
  • Canada
    1991–1996
    #2,558
    in 1996
  • South Australia
    1984–1994
    #716
    in 1994

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Lindsy in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Lindsy. Linked forms have their own page here.

LyndsyLindsayLindsey

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Lindsy by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,094
1982
Peak year
1982
129 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
2,153
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,530
1919
Peak year
1919
5 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
1919
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lindsy

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

LindenLinleyLincolnLinseyLinnieLindiLinetteLindleyLinneaLinzyLindieLindeeLinhLindyLindsiLinsayLinleeLinzieLinsyLindsieLindiaLinnaLinLinnaea

Names with a curve like Lindsy

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Lindsy, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

CassiKassiLakendraLatiaTaneishaEboniePorscheKasiMaganAshleiAshleaNicholas

Sibling names for Lindsy

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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