Lynden
Lynden is given to both girls and boys: 35 girls and 23 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,135 among girls’ names and #4,484 among boys’, #5,116 among all names counting both); 2,272 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,900 Americans named Lynden and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 9 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lynden by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lynden?
#4,484 among boys’ names, 2025
Lynden fell from #3,336 in 2015 to #4,484 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 17.7 to 13.5 per million.
77 babies in 2016, the peak
Lynden peaked in 2016, when 77 babies were given it (35 boys, #3,266 among boys’ names). The 58 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 75% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,135 | 23 | #4,484 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,231 | 16 | #5,803 |
| 2023 | 26 | #5,070 | 22 | #4,677 |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,425 | 20 | #4,952 |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,912 | 24 | #4,320 |
| 2020 | 52 | #3,081 | 20 | #4,797 |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,760 | 25 | #4,184 |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,977 | 38 | #3,080 |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,744 | 35 | #3,285 |
| 2016 | 42 | #3,685 | 35 | #3,266 |
Every recorded year (101)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #5,588 | 34 | #3,336 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,391 | 41 | #2,868 |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,301 | 29 | #3,628 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,783 | 29 | #3,673 |
| 2011 | 22 | #6,059 | 26 | #3,956 |
| 2010 | 36 | #4,152 | 37 | #3,112 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,714 | 32 | #3,444 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,965 | 24 | #4,212 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,304 | 27 | #3,854 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,659 | 27 | #3,736 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,706 | 22 | #4,136 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,034 | 16 | #5,155 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,989 | 24 | #3,684 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,276 | 14 | #5,290 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,607 | 17 | #4,602 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,593 | 14 | #5,208 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,968 | 14 | #4,919 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,710 | 19 | #3,794 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,388 | 6 | #8,837 |
| 1996 | under 5 | 9 | #6,304 | |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,235 | 17 | #3,781 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,132 | 14 | #4,436 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,763 | 10 | #5,629 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,677 | 13 | #4,477 |
| 1991 | under 5 | 11 | #4,967 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 11 | #4,871 | |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,373 | 9 | #5,427 |
| 1988 | under 5 | 11 | #4,340 | |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,430 | 10 | #4,445 |
| 1986 | under 5 | 10 | #4,335 | |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,711 | 8 | #4,986 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,421 | 7 | #5,336 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,250 | 11 | #3,775 |
| 1982 | under 5 | 7 | #5,371 | |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,650 | 6 | #5,958 |
| 1980 | under 5 | 5 | #6,870 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 5 | #6,666 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 6 | #5,570 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 6 | #5,353 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 8 | #4,162 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 5 | #5,574 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 5 | #5,364 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 9 | #2,901 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 7 | #3,436 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 9 | #2,980 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 15 | #2,167 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 13 | #2,326 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 21 | #1,801 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 22 | #1,751 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 13 | #2,366 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 12 | #2,454 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 15 | #2,153 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 14 | #2,222 | |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,366 | 13 | #2,273 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,258 | 13 | #2,274 |
| 1953 | under 5 | 13 | #2,246 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 12 | #2,333 | |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,885 | 11 | #2,448 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,064 | 15 | #1,987 |
| 1949 | under 5 | 18 | #1,796 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 19 | #1,743 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 17 | #1,888 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 12 | #2,225 | |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,966 | 18 | #1,609 |
| 1944 | under 5 | 14 | #1,937 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 13 | #2,133 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 20 | #1,616 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 14 | #1,962 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 14 | #1,952 | |
| 1939 | under 5 | 7 | #3,013 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 11 | #2,273 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 13 | #2,054 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 5 | #3,863 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 10 | #2,498 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 10 | #2,473 | |
| 1932 | under 5 | 9 | #2,766 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 5 | #4,114 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 8 | #3,181 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 9 | #2,879 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 11 | #2,589 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 5 | #4,561 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 11 | #2,687 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 6 | #4,160 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 10 | #2,870 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 7 | #3,734 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 8 | #3,390 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 11 | #2,703 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 10 | #2,796 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 9 | #3,012 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 7 | #3,433 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 10 | #2,555 |
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 Lynden a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,272 Americans recorded as Lynden, 34% are girls and 66% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lynden: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lynden, and how old are they?
1,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 84% of the 2,272 Americans ever recorded as Lynden. The median Lynden alive today is 16 years old; half are between 9 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 1,716 people named Lynden (617 women and girls, 1,099 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,652 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 47 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 198 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 49 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 215 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 583 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 808 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 19,707 babies since 1880, Lynden is the third most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 58 of their 358 babies (16%), again the third most given.
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 Lynden
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 Lynden and names like it
- Compare Lynden and LyndonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lynden since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Lynden.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Lynden alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.