Lyndsay
Lyndsay was last recorded in 2022, when 10 babies were given it; 6,716 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,530 Americans named Lyndsay and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 32 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lyndsay by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lyndsay?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,122, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
403 babies in 1982, the peak
Lyndsay peaked in 1982, when 403 girls were given it, #502 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 10 | #10,122 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,715 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,876 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,583 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,812 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,890 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,922 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,693 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,190 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,257 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 31 | #4,686 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 42 | #3,775 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 44 | #3,680 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 58 | #3,034 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 62 | #2,835 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 86 | #2,151 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 83 | #2,166 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 75 | #2,269 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 72 | #2,278 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 92 | #1,891 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 128 | #1,440 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 118 | #1,469 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 125 | #1,374 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 145 | #1,235 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 136 | #1,274 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 163 | #1,092 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 204 | #926 | 0.11 |
| 1993 | 212 | #908 | 0.12 |
| 1992 | 265 | #778 | 0.14 |
| 1991 | 261 | #785 | 0.14 |
| 1990 | 294 | #712 | 0.15 |
| 1989 | 306 | #664 | 0.17 |
| 1988 | 333 | #601 | 0.19 |
| 1987 | 337 | #585 | 0.19 |
| 1986 | 349 | #567 | 0.20 |
| 1985 | 392 | #515 | 0.23 |
| 1984 | 362 | #532 | 0.21 |
| 1983 | 393 | #495 | 0.24 |
| 1982 | 403 | #502 | 0.24 |
| 1981 | 275 | #644 | 0.16 |
| 1980 | 208 | #790 | 0.13 |
| 1979 | 162 | #916 | 0.10 |
| 1978 | 119 | #1,102 | 0.08 |
| 1977 | 121 | #1,077 | 0.08 |
| 1976 | 90 | #1,246 | 0.06 |
| 1975 | 24 | #3,013 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,194 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,192 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lyndsay a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lyndsay has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lyndsay: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lyndsay, and how old are they?
6,530 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 6,716 Americans ever recorded as Lyndsay. The median Lyndsay alive today is 38 years old; half are between 32 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 6,365 people named Lyndsay (6,338 women and girls, 27 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,560 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 705 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,550 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,190 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 81 |
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).
Where are babies named Lyndsay born?
The states with the most babies named Lyndsay are California, Ohio and New York, with 28% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 497 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 418 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| New York | 410 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 353 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 337 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 313 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 240 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| New Jersey | 212 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 211 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Massachusetts | 207 | not ranked | 1.3× |
Where Lyndsay is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lyndsay is most over-represented in Indiana: since 1973 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Lyndsay with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Lyndsay?
Lyndsay is a less common spelling of Lindsay: SSA has recorded 6,716 Lyndsay and 135,501 Lindsay since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 327,219 babies since 1880, Lyndsay is the fourth most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 259 babies recorded by SSA was a Lyndsay (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Lyndsay
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 Lyndsay and names like it
- Compare Lyndsay and LindsayBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sLyndsay peaked in 1982.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lyndsay since 1910.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Lyndsay.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Lyndsay alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.