Lyndsay — girls' name

What the Data Says About Lyndsay

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,716 babies named Lyndsay between 1973 and 2022, spanning 50 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lyndsay currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1982, when 403 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lyndsay performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 3,358 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Lyndsay shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 497 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Ohio and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Lyndsay in 39 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lyndsay 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 6,716 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.