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Linsay

Girls' name

Variant of Lindsay

Linsay has been given to 673 babies in the U.S. since 1976. 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 1984, with 50 recorded.

Babies named Linsay, 2015

1 in 617,000

Linsay over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Linsay: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Lindsay

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Linsay means

Linsay is a variant of Lindsay.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Linsay is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈlɪn.zi/ for Linsay.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Linsay → Lindsay. The family’s meaning is “Isle of Lind”, recorded in English with the source elements Lindesīġe.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lindsay.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 673 girls were recorded with the name Linsay between 1976 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 50 in 1984; its best national rank was #2,036 in 1984.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Linsay?

Linsay had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 617,000
6 of 3,701,574 births
Among girls only
1 in 297,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
427,624 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Linsay 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 2015 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 427,624 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Linsay. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Linsays were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Linsay was born before 1987 — so the typical Linsay is around 38 today.

Median birth year
1987
About 38 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
55.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
34.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
673
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 55.0% of all recorded uses (370).

Is Linsay 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1984 (50)
Years since peak
41
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,036
1984

Spellings of Linsay

Linsay is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 52.5% against Linsay'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.

Where Linsay is used

Across 1910–2025, Linsay was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,185,708 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Michigan1 in —
  4. 4Ohio1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —

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. Linsay has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Linsay around the world

Where Linsay 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.

  • Scotland
    1974–1998
    #558
    in 1998
  • France
    1981–2023
    #4,171
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1992–1992
    #2,118
    in 1992

Popularity data from National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Linsay 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
#2,036
1984
Peak year
1984
50 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
673
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Linsay

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

LindieLindeeLinleyLindenLinzyLindleyLindiLindsiLinleeLinzieLinsyLindiaLinnaeaLincolnLincyLinkynLinzeyLinseyLinderLinnaeLinellLinzeeLinziLinna

Sibling names for Linsay

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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