Girls' name · since 1950
Lindie
Lindie has 427 recorded births since 1950 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2024 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #12,999 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #8,946 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 427
- born since 1950
- 1980s
- peak decade
427 babies have been named Lindie since 1950, making it today's #8946 girls' name.
Lindie has 427 recorded births among girls since 1950, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #8946 as of the latest data, more common than 48% of girls, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1950 to 2025.
- #12,999 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #8,946 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 427 born since 1950
- 1980s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Lindie ranks #12,999 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #8,946 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 427 born since 1950, peaking in the 1980s.
- #12,999 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #8,946 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 427
- born since 1950
- 1980s
- peak decade
Lindie's 427 recorded births place it above 82.02% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Lindie compares
427 Top 48% higher than 52% of 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Lindie's all-time total is 14% above the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Lindie | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 427 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 15 | 21 | 19,840 |
Lindie's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Lindie's SSA record in two at 1983 and the more recent half accounts for 52% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 48%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1953, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2024 peak of 15, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Lindie popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1950–2025
- Peak year (2024)
- 15
- Annual births at peak, across 76 years of records
Lindie by decade
1980s is the heaviest window (85 births, 20% of the file).
1980s was Lindie's strongest decade.
85 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 20% of all-time use.
Lindie births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1950s
1950s
62 births
- 1960s
1960s
37 births
- 1970s
1970s
76 births
- 1980s
1980s
85 births
- 1990s
1990s
45 births
- 2000s
2000s
51 births
- 2010s 20
2010s
20 births
- 2020s
2020s
51 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 85 births (20% of all-time use).
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- Lindie's usage has stayed within range of its 1980s decade-level peak (85 total births) through the 2020s (51) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Lindie: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2024)
Similar record span (~75 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1950–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Lindie draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.