Linsy
Linsy was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,308 among girls’ names; 299 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Linsy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Linsy?
#16,308 among girls’ names, 2025
Linsy fell from #12,499 in 2015 to #16,308 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 4.5 to 3.1 per million.
14 babies in 1984, the peak
Linsy peaked in 1984, when 14 girls were given it, #5,098 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 36% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,308 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,681 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,027 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,880 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,697 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,065 | 5.3 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,537 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,499 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,961 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,694 | 5.7 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 7 | #14,195 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,974 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,050 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,637 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,395 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,323 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,605 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,273 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,948 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,792 | 5.6 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,806 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,519 | 2.8 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,772 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,296 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,660 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,961 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,882 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,777 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,497 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,365 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,274 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,297 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,098 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,718 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,771 | 4.1 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,475 | 6.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Linsy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Linsy 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 Linsy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Linsy, and how old are they?
An estimated 294 Americans named Linsy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 13 and 37. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 376 people named Linsy (366 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 256 born in the U.S. The Census count is 47% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Linsy?
Linsy is a less common spelling of Linsey: SSA has recorded 299 Linsy and 5,365 Linsey since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 12,188 babies since 1880, Linsy is the sixth most given (2.5% 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 Linsy
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 Linsy and names like it
- Compare Linsy and LinseyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sLinsy peaked in 1984.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Linsy since 1910.
- The top names of 1984The year the most babies were named Linsy.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Linsy alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.