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Lynsay

Girls' name

Variant of Lindsay

Lynsay has been given to 307 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 24 recorded.

Babies named Lynsay, 2006

1 in 659,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lynsay: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Lindsay

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lynsay means

Lynsay is a variant of Lindsay.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Lynsay is used in English (Rare).

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

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Lynsay → 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, 307 girls were recorded with the name Lynsay between 1976 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 24 in 1982; its best national rank was #3,489 in 1982.

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 Lynsay?

Lynsay had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2006
1 in 659,000
6 of 3,956,166 births
Among girls only
1 in 317,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2006
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
457,035 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lynsay 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 2006 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 457,035 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lynsay. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lynsays were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lynsay was born before 1986 — so the typical Lynsay is around 39 today.

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
58.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
307
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 58.0% of all recorded uses (178).

Is Lynsay 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1982 (24)
Years since peak
43
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,489
1982

Spellings of Lynsay

Lynsay is not the most common spelling — Lindsay is, with 51.7% against Lynsay's 0.12%.

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.

Lynsay around the world

Where Lynsay 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
    1996–1996
    #3,795
    in 1996
  • Scotland
    1974–2000
    #629
    in 2000
  • France
    2004–2012
    #5,762
    in 2012
  • Canada
    1993–1993
    #2,426
    in 1993

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Lynsay 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
#3,489
1982
Peak year
1982
24 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
307
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lynsay

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

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Sibling names for Lynsay

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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