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Lyndsay

Girls' name

Variant of Lindsay

Lyndsay has been given to 6,716 babies in the U.S. since 1973. 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 403 recorded.

Babies named Lyndsay, 2022

1 in 339,000

Lyndsay over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lyndsay: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Lindsay

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lyndsay means

Lyndsay is a variant of Lindsay.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Lyndsay is used in English (Modern).

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

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Lyndsay → 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, 6,716 girls were recorded with the name Lyndsay between 1973 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 403 in 1982; its best national rank was #495 in 1983.

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 Lyndsay?

Lyndsay had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 339,000
10 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 164,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
234,684 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lyndsay 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 2022 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 234,684 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lyndsay. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lyndsays were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lyndsay was born before 1988 — so the typical Lyndsay is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
6,716
People you could plausibly meet
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1980s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (3,358).

Is Lyndsay 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 (403)
Years since peak
43
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#495
1983

Spellings of Lyndsay

Lyndsay is not the most common spelling — Lindsey is, with 39.4% against Lyndsay's 1.7%.

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 Lyndsay is used

Across 1910–2025, Lyndsay was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 32,192 across all states with data. It was least common in Alabama (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Indiana1 in 16,667
  2. 2Michigan1 in 16,667
  3. 3Ohio1 in 16,667
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 20,000
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 20,000
  6. 6Colorado1 in 25,000
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 25,000
  8. 8California1 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. Lyndsay has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lyndsay around the world

Where Lyndsay 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
    1996–2008
    #4,524
    in 2008
  • Scotland
    1974–2005
    #687
    in 2005
  • Northern Ireland
    1997–1997
    #358
    in 1997
  • Ireland
    1976–1993
    #356
    in 1993
  • France
    1984–2023
    #6,982
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1991–2010
    #2,833
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    1971–1989
    #483
    in 1989

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA 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 Lyndsay

People whose public names include Lyndsay, 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.

Lyndsay in other languages

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

LynsayLindsayLyndsey

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

Lyndsay 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
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Best rank ever
#495
1983
Peak year
1982
403 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
6,716
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lyndsay

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

LyndseyLynelleLynsayLynnetteLynnleeLynetteLynleeLynneaLynseyLyndeeLynnaeLynzieLynleyLyndiLyndsieLynettaLynnaLyndieLyndenLynleighLynLynaeLynellLyndell

Names with a curve like Lyndsay

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

AshelyLinseyKatiTarahKandiceJesicaKrystinaJoshuaAshlieAshliEboniCody

Sibling names for Lyndsay

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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