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Lyne

Girls' name

Spelling variant of Lind or Lane

Lyne has been given to 207 babies in the U.S. since 1946. 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 1957, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Lyne, 2016

1 in 734,000

Lyne over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lyne: meaning, origin, and history

Spelling variant of Lind or Lane

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lyne means

Lyne is a spelling variant of Lind or Lane.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

As an English surname, spelling variant of Lind and Line; as an Irish surname, spelling variant of Lane.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Lyne (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Lyne is used in English and French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lind, Lane and Line.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 202 girls were recorded with the name Lyne between 1946 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1957; its best national rank was #3,233 in 1957.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Lyne between 1959 and 1959. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1959; its best national rank was #4,348 in 1959.

How common is Lyne?

Lyne had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 734,000
5 of 3,669,531 births
Among girls only
1 in 354,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
508,706 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lyne 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 2016 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 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lyne. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lynes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lyne was born before 1960 — so the typical Lyne is around 65 today.

Median birth year
1960
About 65 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
40.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
171
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 40.6% of all recorded uses (82).

Is Lyne 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 1957 (14)
Years since peak
68
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,233
1957

Spellings of Lyne

Lyne is not the most common spelling — Jane is, with 18.6% against Lyne's <0.01%.

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.

Lyne around the world

Where Lyne 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
    2019–2019
    #5,591
    in 2019
  • Scotland
    1975–1980
    #539
    in 1980
  • France
    1930–2025
    #382
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,615
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1958–1964
    #653
    in 1964

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Lyne 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
—
Best rank ever
#3,233
1957
Peak year
1957
14 that year
First recorded
1946
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
202
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,348
1959
Peak year
1959
5 that year
First recorded
1959
Last recorded
1959
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lyne

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

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Sibling names for Lyne

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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