Lyn — #11137 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Lyn

The Social Security Administration has registered 7,211 babies named Lyn between 1915 and 2024, spanning 110 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lyn currently holds the #11137 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1957, when 280 babies received it in a single year. Lyn is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,561 additional births since 1896.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lyn performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 2,448 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Lyn shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 768 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Massachusetts. In total, SSA state-level files list Lyn in 37 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lyn 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 7,211 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.