Lindley — #7286 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Lindley

The Social Security Administration has registered 987 babies named Lindley between 1943 and 2024, spanning 82 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lindley currently holds the #7286 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1988, when 91 babies received it in a single year. Lindley is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 628 additional births since 1895.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lindley performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 283 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Lindley shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 42 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Pennsylvania and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Lindley in 9 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lindley in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 987 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.