Lyndal
Lyndal was last recorded in 1976, when 6 babies were given it; 712 Americans have been recorded with it between 1913 and 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lyndal by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lyndal?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #5,352, in 1976; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
29 babies in 1947, the peak
Lyndal peaked in 1947, when 29 babies were given it (11 boys, #2,454 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | under 5 | 6 | #5,352 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 6 | #4,761 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 6 | #4,720 | |
| 1968 | under 5 | 6 | #3,970 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 5 | #4,311 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 8 | #3,143 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 6 | #3,874 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 11 | #2,608 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 10 | #2,821 | |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,102 | 11 | #2,625 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 6 | #5,963 | 8 | #3,177 |
| 1958 | under 5 | 14 | #2,223 | |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,179 | 6 | #3,815 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,508 | 10 | #2,725 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,573 | 8 | #3,109 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,153 | 14 | #2,170 |
| 1953 | under 5 | 11 | #2,474 | |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,068 | 9 | #2,804 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,643 | 13 | #2,205 |
| 1950 | 16 | #2,618 | 11 | #2,387 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,940 | 10 | #2,545 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,079 | 7 | #3,195 |
| 1947 | 18 | #2,409 | 11 | #2,454 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,347 | 12 | #2,224 |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,548 | under 5 | |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,871 | 14 | #1,936 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,385 | 14 | #2,043 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,419 | 11 | #2,341 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,811 | 15 | #1,869 |
| 1940 | 14 | #2,259 | 10 | #2,426 |
| 1939 | 17 | #2,008 | 9 | #2,555 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,849 | 12 | #2,144 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,394 | 5 | #3,837 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,626 | 9 | #2,553 |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,037 | 10 | #2,481 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,663 | under 5 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 7 | #3,174 | |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,781 | under 5 | |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,722 | 6 | #3,617 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,970 | 14 | #2,140 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,376 | 7 | #3,432 |
| 1928 | under 5 | 6 | #3,973 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 9 | #3,061 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 5 | #4,575 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 5 | #4,633 | |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,267 | under 5 | |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,740 | under 5 | |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,790 | under 5 | |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,878 | under 5 | |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,451 | 7 | #3,693 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,584 | under 5 | |
| 1917 | 7 | #3,945 | under 5 | |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,862 | under 5 | |
| 1913 | under 5 | 5 | #3,091 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Lyndal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 712 Americans recorded as Lyndal, 44% are girls and 56% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lyndal: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lyndal, and how old are they?
An estimated 318 Americans named Lyndal and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (45% of everyone recorded); the median is 75 years old and half are between 68 and 81. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 550 people named Lyndal (261 women and girls, 289 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 399 born in the U.S. The Census count is 38% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 4,579 babies since 1880, Lyndal is the second most given (16% 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 Lyndal
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 Lyndal and names like it
- Compare Lyndal and LyndellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sLyndal peaked in 1947.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lyndal since 1910.
- The top names of 1947The year the most babies were named Lyndal.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lyndal alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.