Linzey
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Linzey has been given to 341 babies in the U.S. since 1981. 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 2003, with 19 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% girls, 5% boys all-time.
Babies named Linzey, 2015
1 in 529,000
Linzey 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Linzey over time
In 2015, Linzey went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Linzey?
Linzey 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 529,000
- 7 of 3,701,574 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 255,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2015
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 366,535 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Linzey sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 366,535 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Linzey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Linzeys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Linzey was born before 1999 — so the typical Linzey is around 26 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 35.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 74.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 325
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 35.7% of all recorded uses (116).
Is Linzey 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 2003 (19)
- Years since peak
- 22
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.3% average annual change
Spellings of Linzey
Linzey is not the most common spelling — Lindsey is, with 50.9% against Linzey'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.
Linzey by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Linzey
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Linzey
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.