Lyndsey
Lyndsey was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,721 among girls’ names; 14,420 Americans have been recorded with it since 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 14,100 Americans named Lyndsey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 28 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lyndsey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lyndsey mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lyndsey is “a female given name transferred from the surname.”
Spelling variant. A less common spelling of Lindsay or Lindsey.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lyndsey?
#7,721 among girls’ names, 2025
Lyndsey fell from #3,683 in 2015 to #7,721 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 23.5 to 8.7 per million.
687 babies in 1990, the peak
Lyndsey peaked in 1990, when 687 girls were given it, #384 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,721 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,814 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,871 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,568 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,305 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,413 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,393 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,893 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 42 | #3,671 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 52 | #3,169 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 42 | #3,683 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 55 | #3,061 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 62 | #2,796 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 82 | #2,304 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 88 | #2,168 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 107 | #1,891 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 117 | #1,835 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 169 | #1,412 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 161 | #1,457 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 214 | #1,148 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 241 | #1,013 | 0.13 |
| 2004 | 260 | #928 | 0.14 |
| 2003 | 264 | #905 | 0.14 |
| 2002 | 252 | #892 | 0.14 |
| 2001 | 340 | #718 | 0.19 |
| 2000 | 392 | #639 | 0.22 |
| 1999 | 370 | #637 | 0.21 |
| 1998 | 372 | #627 | 0.21 |
| 1997 | 417 | #563 | 0.24 |
| 1996 | 385 | #593 | 0.22 |
| 1995 | 413 | #561 | 0.23 |
| 1994 | 504 | #494 | 0.28 |
| 1993 | 490 | #504 | 0.27 |
| 1992 | 546 | #455 | 0.30 |
| 1991 | 601 | #424 | 0.32 |
| 1990 | 687 | #384 | 0.36 |
| 1989 | 606 | #408 | 0.33 |
| 1988 | 660 | #367 | 0.37 |
| 1987 | 623 | #377 | 0.36 |
| 1986 | 663 | #359 | 0.39 |
| 1985 | 635 | #366 | 0.37 |
| 1984 | 657 | #350 | 0.39 |
| 1983 | 669 | #343 | 0.40 |
| 1982 | 634 | #365 | 0.37 |
| 1981 | 423 | #488 | 0.25 |
| 1980 | 264 | #668 | 0.16 |
| 1979 | 239 | #711 | 0.15 |
| 1978 | 174 | #851 | 0.11 |
| 1977 | 104 | #1,188 | 0.07 |
| 1976 | 50 | #1,857 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 34 | #2,387 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,503 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,414 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,736 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,144 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,250 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,376 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lyndsey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lyndsey has been given almost only to girls: 32 boys in 57 years of records.
Girls and boys named Lyndsey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lyndsey, and how old are they?
14,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 14,420 Americans ever recorded as Lyndsey. The median Lyndsey alive today is 35 years old; half are between 28 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 13,474 people named Lyndsey (13,380 women and girls, 94 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 14,047 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 868 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 8,960 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,810 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 426 |
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 Lyndsey born?
The states with the most babies named Lyndsey are Texas, California and Ohio, with 25% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 1,107 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| California | 1,042 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 928 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Michigan | 610 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 596 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 593 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 557 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 535 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 468 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 416 | not ranked | 1.0× |
Where Lyndsey is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lyndsey is most over-represented in Ohio: since 1964 it was given 1.4 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 Lyndsey with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 327,219 babies since 1880, Lyndsey is the third most given (4.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 259 babies (5.4%), 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 Lyndsey
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 Lyndsey and names like it
- Compare Lyndsey and LindseyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sLyndsey peaked in 1990.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lyndsey since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Lyndsey: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Lyndsey.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Lyndsey alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.