Lindsie
Lindsie was last recorded in 2011, when 9 babies were given it; 969 Americans have been recorded with it between 1974 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lindsie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lindsie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,758, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
57 babies in 1987, the peak
Lindsie peaked in 1987, when 57 girls were given it, #1,975 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 9 | #11,758 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,893 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,370 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,299 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,541 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,080 | 7.9 |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,020 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,264 | 8.7 |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,068 | 8.8 |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,027 | 10.6 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 16 | #6,829 | 8.9 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,243 | 12.1 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,664 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,487 | 10.8 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,311 | 14.4 |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,190 | 21.1 |
| 1995 | 32 | #3,458 | 18.2 |
| 1994 | 37 | #3,138 | 20.7 |
| 1993 | 41 | #2,908 | 22.7 |
| 1992 | 40 | #2,944 | 21.7 |
| 1991 | 51 | #2,467 | 27.2 |
| 1990 | 51 | #2,416 | 26.9 |
| 1989 | 45 | #2,542 | 24.4 |
| 1988 | 38 | #2,763 | 21.3 |
| 1987 | 57 | #1,975 | 32.8 |
| 1986 | 48 | #2,183 | 28.0 |
| 1985 | 40 | #2,463 | 23.2 |
| 1984 | 36 | #2,597 | 21.4 |
| 1983 | 44 | #2,219 | 26.3 |
| 1982 | 43 | #2,311 | 25.4 |
| 1981 | 32 | #2,823 | 19.2 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,643 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,332 | 10.6 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,399 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,630 | 5.9 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,553 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lindsie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lindsie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lindsie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lindsie, and how old are they?
An estimated 945 Americans named Lindsie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 30 and 41. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 897 people named Lindsie (894 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 951 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
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 Lindsie?
Lindsie is a less common spelling of Lindsey: SSA has recorded 969 Lindsie and 165,286 Lindsey since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 307,517 babies since 1880, Lindsie is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 245 babies recorded by SSA was a Lindsie (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Lindsie
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 Lindsie and names like it
- Compare Lindsie and LindseyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sLindsie peaked in 1987.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lindsie since 1910.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Lindsie.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Lindsie alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.