Linsey
Linsey was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,635 among girls’ names; 5,365 Americans have been recorded with it since 1904 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,090 Americans named Linsey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 28 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Linsey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Linsey?
#12,635 among girls’ names, 2025
Linsey fell from #6,366 in 2015 to #12,635 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.2 to 4.4 per million.
296 babies in 1985, the peak
Linsey peaked in 1985, when 296 girls were given it, #631 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,635 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,521 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,310 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,808 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,770 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,973 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,938 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,286 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,828 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 20 | #6,366 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 27 | #5,107 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,935 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,443 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,301 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 28 | #5,044 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 37 | #4,153 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 45 | #3,619 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 65 | #2,808 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 73 | #2,528 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 86 | #2,150 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 98 | #1,918 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 93 | #1,961 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 90 | #1,958 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 118 | #1,578 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 110 | #1,610 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 117 | #1,478 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 121 | #1,425 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 95 | #1,662 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 143 | #1,226 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 120 | #1,371 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 154 | #1,156 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 154 | #1,150 | 0.09 |
| 1992 | 187 | #1,006 | 0.10 |
| 1991 | 167 | #1,081 | 0.09 |
| 1990 | 186 | #989 | 0.10 |
| 1989 | 169 | #1,011 | 0.09 |
| 1988 | 200 | #883 | 0.11 |
| 1987 | 214 | #817 | 0.12 |
| 1986 | 191 | #871 | 0.11 |
| 1985 | 296 | #631 | 0.17 |
| 1984 | 258 | #668 | 0.15 |
| 1983 | 233 | #717 | 0.14 |
| 1982 | 267 | #666 | 0.16 |
| 1981 | 182 | #856 | 0.11 |
| 1980 | 149 | #991 | 0.09 |
| 1979 | 145 | #985 | 0.09 |
| 1978 | 87 | #1,362 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 74 | #1,491 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 52 | #1,805 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 28 | #2,712 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,606 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,829 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,017 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,021 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,734 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,422 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,607 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,043 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,847 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,668 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Linsey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,365 Americans recorded as Linsey, 96% are girls and 4% boys. In 2025 it went to 7 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Linsey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Linsey, and how old are they?
5,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 5,365 Americans ever recorded as Linsey. The median Linsey alive today is 37 years old; half are between 28 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 5,184 people named Linsey (5,006 women and girls, 178 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,102 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 10 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 63 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 567 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,060 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,220 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 168 |
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 Linsey born?
The states with the most babies named Linsey are California, Texas and Michigan, with 35% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 407 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Texas | 395 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 194 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 193 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 190 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 167 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 125 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 116 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Indiana | 106 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Utah | 84 | not ranked | 1.3× |
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 Linsey with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 12,602 babies since 1880, Linsey is the most given (43% of them).
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 Linsey
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 Linsey and names like it
- Compare Linsey and LynseyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sLinsey peaked in 1985.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Linsey since 1910.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Linsey.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Linsey alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.