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Lynwood

Boys' name

Variant of Linwood

Lynwood has been given to 4,168 babies in the U.S. since 1898. 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 1935, with 114 recorded.

Babies named Lynwood, 2022

1 in 677,000

Lynwood over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lynwood: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Linwood

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lynwood means

Lynwood is a variant of Linwood.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Lynwood is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈlɪn.wʊd/ for Lynwood.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Lynwood → Linwood. The family’s meaning is “linden tree + woods, forest”, recorded in English with the source elements lind and wudu.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Linwood.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,163 boys were recorded with the name Lynwood between 1898 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 114 in 1935; its best national rank was #542 in 1935.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Lynwood between 1948 and 1948. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1948; its best national rank was #5,702 in 1948.

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 Lynwood?

Lynwood 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 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 349,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lynwood sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lynwood. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lynwoods were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lynwood was born before 1946 — so the typical Lynwood is around 79 today.

Median birth year
1946
About 79 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
20.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,751
People you could plausibly meet
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1940s — 20.6% of all recorded uses (859).

Is Lynwood 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 1935 (114)
Years since peak
90
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#542
1935

Spellings of Lynwood

Lynwood is not the most common spelling — Linwood is, with 59.1% against Lynwood's 19.3%.

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 Lynwood is used

Across 1910–2025, Lynwood was most concentrated in Virginia — about 1 in 5,556 boys, against 1 in 42,112 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

018 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Virginia1 in 5,556
  2. 2North Carolina1 in 6,250
  3. 3Georgia1 in 25,000
  4. 4South Carolina1 in 25,000
  5. 5Maine1 in 50,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 50,000
  7. 7Alabama1 in 100,000
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Lynwood has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lynwood around the world

Where Lynwood 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.

  • South Australia
    1952–1952
    #345
    in 1952

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Lynwood by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#542
1935
Peak year
1935
114 that year
First recorded
1898
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
4,163
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,702
1948
Peak year
1948
5 that year
First recorded
1948
Last recorded
1948
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lynwood

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

LyndellLynnwoodLyndonHaywoodLyndenLyncolnNorwoodDurwoodLenwoodEllwoodSherwoodElwoodLynellLinwoodMahmoodLynnoxLynfordGlenwoodLyndallDerwoodLyndelLyndalDawoodLynken

Names with a curve like Lynwood

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

WaymonDaroldGaroldGlynnGeroldRayfordWardellLawerenceGearldMeltonFarrellJere

Sibling names for Lynwood

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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