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Lyndi

#3,498 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Lindy

Lyndi has been given to 1,961 babies in the U.S. since 1954. In 2025 it ranked #3,498 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1989, with 66 recorded.

Babies named Lyndi, 2025

1 in 75,300

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lyndi: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Lindy

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lyndi means

Lyndi is a variant of Lindy.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lindy.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,961 girls were recorded with the name Lyndi between 1954 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 66 in 1989; its best national rank was #1,789 in 1979.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,883 in 2020 to #3,498 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,359 in 2015 to #3,498 in 2025.

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 Lyndi?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 75,300
44 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 36,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,498
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
52,226 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lyndi 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 52,226 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lyndi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lyndis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lyndi was born before 1992 — so the typical Lyndi is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
26.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
37.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,961
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Choose a decade

1980s — 26.7% of all recorded uses (524).

Is Lyndi 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
+437
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+385
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+861
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.33×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
66.7%
Peak was 1989 (66)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,789
1979

Spellings of Lyndi

Lyndi is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 68.2% against Lyndi's 0.09%.

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 Lyndi is used

Across 1910–2025, Lyndi was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 298,788 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oklahoma1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 100,000
  3. 3Utah1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Colorado1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7Indiana1 in —
  8. 8Michigan1 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. Lyndi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lyndi around the world

Where Lyndi 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
    1986–1988
    #577
    in 1988
  • Canada
    2024–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1955–1981
    #616
    in 1981

Popularity data from National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Lyndi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,498
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 385
Best rank ever
#1,789
1979
Peak year
1989
66 that year
First recorded
1954
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,961
Count in 2025
44

Names similar to Lyndi

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

LynnaLynaeLynleeLynneaLyndeeLynnaeLynaLyndyLynzieLynleyLyndieLyndenLynelleLindiLynellLynnleeNandiLynnoxLyndonKendiLynnieLynndiLynziLyndia

Sibling names for Lyndi

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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