Name Awesome

Linsey

#12,635 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Lindsay

Linsey has been given to 5,365 babies in the U.S. since 1948. In 2025 it ranked #12,635 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1985, with 296 recorded.

Babies named Linsey, 2025

1 in 474,000

Linsey over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Linsey: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Lindsay

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Linsey means

Linsey is a variant of Lindsay.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Linsey is used in English.

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

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Linsey → 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, 5,125 girls were recorded with the name Linsey between 1948 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 296 in 1985; its best national rank was #631 in 1985.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,366 in 2015 to #12,635 in 2025.

In the United States, 240 boys were recorded with the name Linsey between 1904 and 1996. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1953; its best national rank was #1,317 in 1904.

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 Linsey?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,635
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Linsey 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 2025 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Linsey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Linseys were born

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

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
42.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5,120
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 42.1% of all recorded uses (2,159).

Is Linsey 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
+1,886
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−6,269
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.35×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.4%
Peak was 1985 (296)
Years since peak
40
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#631
1985

Spellings of Linsey

Linsey is not the most common spelling — Lindsey is, with 30.2% against Linsey's 0.98%.

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 Linsey is used

Across 1910–2025, Linsey was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 51,589 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 14,286
  2. 2Florida1 in 25,000
  3. 3California1 in 33,333
  4. 4Indiana1 in 33,333
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 33,333
  6. 6Michigan1 in 33,333
  7. 7Oklahoma1 in 33,333
  8. 8Texas1 in 33,333

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

Linsey around the world

Where Linsey 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2009
    #4,564
    in 2009
  • Scotland
    1974–2003
    #667
    in 2003
  • Ireland
    1978–1990
    #446
    in 1990
  • France
    1984–2024
    #7,637
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2022
    #3,322
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1965–1993
    #712
    in 1993

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Linsey

People whose public names include Linsey, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Linsey by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,635
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#631
1985
Peak year
1985
296 that year
First recorded
1948
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,125
Count in 2025
7

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,317
1904
Peak year
1953
11 that year
First recorded
1904
Last recorded
1996
All-time count
240
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Linsey

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

LindseyLinnieLinneaLinetteLindenLinleyLindyJerseyLincolnKinseyDaiseyRamseyLindsyLindiLindleyLinzyJoseyLindieLindeeLynseyLinhMaiseyLinaLyndsey

Names with a curve like Linsey

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

JesicaKatiTarahKrystinaLyndsayAshliKasieAshelyCodyAlexanderKacyEboni

Sibling names for Linsey

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

Explore around Linsey

Top names of 1985, Linsey's peak yearThe 1980s in fullOther names that peaked in 1985Girls' names starting with L