Lindi
Lindi was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,210 among girls’ names; 1,140 Americans have been recorded with it since 1946 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,070 Americans named Lindi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 30 and 53.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lindi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lindi?
#14,210 among girls’ names, 2025
Lindi fell from #13,868 in 2015 to #14,210 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 3.9 to 3.7 per million.
38 babies in 1983, the peak
Lindi peaked in 1983, when 38 girls were given it, #2,456 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,210 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,743 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,600 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,391 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,734 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,919 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,975 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,047 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,532 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,826 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (75)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #13,868 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,391 | 8.0 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,082 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,892 | 5.6 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,298 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,282 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,091 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,145 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,026 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,284 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,097 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,622 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,583 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,202 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,565 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,103 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,970 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,840 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,921 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,872 | 7.2 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,504 | 7.6 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,411 | 12.3 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,319 | 12.1 |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,838 | 14.1 |
| 1988 | 23 | #3,962 | 12.9 |
| 1987 | 21 | #4,065 | 12.1 |
| 1986 | 29 | #3,171 | 16.9 |
| 1985 | 38 | #2,568 | 22.1 |
| 1984 | 27 | #3,193 | 16.0 |
| 1983 | 38 | #2,456 | 22.7 |
| 1982 | 25 | #3,378 | 14.8 |
| 1981 | 31 | #2,892 | 18.6 |
| 1980 | 28 | #3,106 | 16.9 |
| 1979 | 37 | #2,507 | 23.0 |
| 1978 | 32 | #2,655 | 20.9 |
| 1977 | 28 | #2,877 | 18.3 |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,068 | 10.9 |
| 1975 | 16 | #4,047 | 11.0 |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,799 | 17.7 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,875 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 15 | #4,007 | 9.9 |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,730 | 10.2 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,575 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,601 | 6.5 |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,704 | 8.5 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,818 | 5.5 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,699 | 5.3 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,201 | 3.4 |
| 1964 | 21 | #2,783 | 11.1 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,418 | 5.2 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,725 | 4.6 |
| 1961 | 30 | #2,179 | 14.9 |
| 1960 | 15 | #3,285 | 7.4 |
| 1959 | 21 | #2,556 | 10.4 |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,170 | 7.5 |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,094 | 7.3 |
| 1956 | 17 | #2,884 | 8.5 |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,485 | 6.1 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,486 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 15 | #2,877 | 8.0 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,247 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,398 | 6.1 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,748 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,997 | 3.5 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,739 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lindi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lindi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 75 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lindi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lindi, and how old are they?
1,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 1,140 Americans ever recorded as Lindi. The median Lindi alive today is 43 years old; half are between 30 and 53.
The 2020 Census counted 1,116 people named Lindi (1,096 women and girls, 20 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,043 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 180 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 268 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 355 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 159 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 104 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Lindi?
Lindi is a less common spelling of Lindy: SSA has recorded 1,140 Lindi and 10,672 Lindy since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,553,153 babies since 1880, Lindi is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 562 babies (1.1%), the seventh most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lindi
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Lindi and names like it
- Compare Lindi and LindyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sLindi peaked in 1983.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lindi since 1910.
- The top names of 1983The year the most babies were named Lindi.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Lindi alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.