Lyndsy
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Lyndsy has been given to 622 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 1982, with 48 recorded.
Babies named Lyndsy, 2008
1 in 655,000
Lyndsy 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Lyndsy?
Lyndsy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2008
- 1 in 655,000
- 6 of 3,930,727 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 315,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2008
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 454,097 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Lyndsy sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2008 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 454,097 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lyndsy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Lyndsys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Lyndsy was born before 1987 — so the typical Lyndsy is around 38 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 51.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 70.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 622
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 51.9% of all recorded uses (323).
Is Lyndsy 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 1982 (48)
- Years since peak
- 43
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.7% average annual change
Spellings of Lyndsy
Lyndsy is not the most common spelling — Lindsey is, with 37.4% against Lyndsy's 0.15%.
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 Lyndsy is used
Across 1910–2025, Lyndsy was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,362,882 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Indiana1 in —
- 3Michigan1 in —
- 4Texas1 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. Lyndsy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Lyndsy around the world
Where Lyndsy 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.
- France2007–2007#6,174in 2007
- Canada1992–1992#2,433in 1992
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Lyndsy by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Lyndsy
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Lyndsy
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.