Lyndy
#4,942 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Lyndy has been given to 487 babies in the U.S. since 1950. In 2025 it ranked #4,942 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 32 recorded.
Babies named Lyndy, 2025
1 in 123,000
Lyndy 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Lyndy?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 123,000
- 27 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 59,500
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #4,942
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 85,108 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Lyndy sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lyndy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Lyndys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Lyndy was born before 1992 — so the typical Lyndy is around 33 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 33.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 42.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 487
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 33.1% of all recorded uses (161).
Is Lyndy 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
- −503
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +824
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 84.4%
- Peak was 2024 (32)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.1% average annual change
Spellings of Lyndy
Lyndy is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 55.1% against Lyndy's 0.02%.
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.
Lyndy around the world
Where Lyndy 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.
- France2021–2021#7,342in 2021
- Canada2022–2022#2,577in 2022
- South Australia1955–1980#634in 1980
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Lyndy by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Lyndy
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Lyndy
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.