Lindsy
Lindsy was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 2,158 Americans have been recorded with it between 1919 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,100 Americans named Lindsy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 29 and 42.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lindsy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lindsy?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,904, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
129 babies in 1982, the peak
Lindsy peaked in 1982, when 129 girls were given it, #1,094 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #12,904 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,513 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,843 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,256 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,104 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,798 | 6.2 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,497 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,610 | 10.6 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,239 | 9.7 |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,035 | 10.2 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 8 | #12,874 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,537 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,475 | 14.2 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,601 | 9.0 |
| 2007 | 36 | #4,262 | 18.7 |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,219 | 18.4 |
| 2005 | 35 | #4,078 | 18.9 |
| 2004 | 33 | #4,233 | 18.0 |
| 2003 | 22 | #5,521 | 12.0 |
| 2002 | 27 | #4,568 | 15.0 |
| 2001 | 31 | #4,067 | 17.2 |
| 2000 | 41 | #3,309 | 22.6 |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,752 | 18.0 |
| 1998 | 40 | #3,148 | 22.6 |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,069 | 22.4 |
| 1996 | 51 | #2,489 | 29.1 |
| 1995 | 59 | #2,265 | 33.6 |
| 1994 | 47 | #2,641 | 26.3 |
| 1993 | 63 | #2,135 | 34.8 |
| 1992 | 65 | #2,088 | 35.3 |
| 1991 | 77 | #1,842 | 41.1 |
| 1990 | 81 | #1,786 | 42.7 |
| 1989 | 82 | #1,674 | 44.5 |
| 1988 | 92 | #1,481 | 51.7 |
| 1987 | 102 | #1,342 | 58.7 |
| 1986 | 99 | #1,334 | 57.7 |
| 1985 | 118 | #1,196 | 68.6 |
| 1984 | 122 | #1,129 | 72.5 |
| 1983 | 112 | #1,174 | 67.0 |
| 1982 | 129 | #1,094 | 76.2 |
| 1981 | 86 | #1,426 | 51.6 |
| 1980 | 62 | #1,778 | 37.3 |
| 1979 | 51 | #2,006 | 31.8 |
| 1978 | 29 | #2,833 | 18.9 |
| 1977 | 30 | #2,750 | 19.6 |
| 1976 | 22 | #3,236 | 15.0 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,349 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,583 | 6.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lindsy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lindsy has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 49 years of records.
Girls and boys named Lindsy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lindsy, and how old are they?
2,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,158 Americans ever recorded as Lindsy. The median Lindsy alive today is 37 years old; half are between 29 and 42.
The 2020 Census counted 2,281 people named Lindsy (2,243 women and girls, 38 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,097 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 205 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,340 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 455 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 92 |
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).
Where are babies named Lindsy born?
The states with the most babies named Lindsy are California, Texas and Michigan, with 53% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 191 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 103 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 56 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 53 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 40 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Washington | 31 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 26 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Wisconsin | 26 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 20 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Utah | 18 | not ranked | 0.7× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Lindsy with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Lindsy?
Lindsy is a less common spelling of Lindsey: SSA has recorded 2,158 Lindsy and 165,286 Lindsey since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 326,869 babies since 1880, Lindsy is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 259 babies recorded by SSA was a Lindsy (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 Lindsy
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 Lindsy and names like it
- Compare Lindsy and LindseyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sLindsy peaked in 1982.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lindsy since 1910.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Lindsy.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Lindsy alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.