Lindy — #1935 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Lindy

The Social Security Administration has registered 8,764 babies named Lindy between 1885 and 2024, spanning 140 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lindy currently holds the #1935 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1979, when 310 babies received it in a single year. Lindy is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,776 additional births since 1923.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lindy performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 1,777 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Lindy shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 823 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Lindy in 36 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lindy 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 8,764 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.