Lynetta
Lynetta was last recorded in 2004, when 5 babies were given it; 1,466 Americans have been recorded with it between 1919 and 2004 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,230 Americans named Lynetta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 59 years old and half are between 50 and 68.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lynetta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lynetta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,716, in 2004; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
51 babies in 1970, the peak
Lynetta peaked in 1970, when 51 girls were given it, #1,771 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 5 | #17,716 | 2.7 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,798 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,933 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,465 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,576 | 2.7 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,029 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,703 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,795 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,863 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,206 | 8.6 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 19 | #4,280 | 11.1 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,545 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,732 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,393 | 10.2 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,713 | 13.0 |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,110 | 16.8 |
| 1980 | 27 | #3,177 | 16.3 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,852 | 12.5 |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,163 | 16.3 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,698 | 13.0 |
| 1976 | 25 | #2,972 | 17.1 |
| 1975 | 22 | #3,221 | 15.1 |
| 1974 | 27 | #2,728 | 18.4 |
| 1973 | 35 | #2,250 | 24.0 |
| 1972 | 41 | #1,983 | 27.0 |
| 1971 | 45 | #1,924 | 27.0 |
| 1970 | 51 | #1,771 | 29.2 |
| 1969 | 36 | #2,119 | 21.3 |
| 1968 | 31 | #2,190 | 18.9 |
| 1967 | 50 | #1,610 | 30.3 |
| 1966 | 50 | #1,594 | 29.5 |
| 1965 | 50 | #1,587 | 28.3 |
| 1964 | 43 | #1,792 | 22.7 |
| 1963 | 38 | #1,907 | 19.7 |
| 1962 | 45 | #1,696 | 22.9 |
| 1961 | 34 | #2,021 | 16.8 |
| 1960 | 43 | #1,738 | 21.3 |
| 1959 | 40 | #1,748 | 19.8 |
| 1958 | 37 | #1,804 | 18.4 |
| 1957 | 40 | #1,717 | 19.6 |
| 1956 | 28 | #2,084 | 13.9 |
| 1955 | 29 | #2,002 | 14.8 |
| 1954 | 30 | #1,928 | 15.4 |
| 1953 | 41 | #1,541 | 21.8 |
| 1952 | 25 | #2,053 | 13.5 |
| 1951 | 40 | #1,494 | 22.2 |
| 1950 | 22 | #2,094 | 12.8 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,774 | 5.3 |
| 1948 | 24 | #1,985 | 14.1 |
| 1947 | 16 | #2,591 | 9.0 |
| 1946 | 17 | #2,360 | 10.8 |
| 1945 | 17 | #2,117 | 13.0 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,872 | 8.3 |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,509 | 10.0 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,605 | 5.9 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,609 | 9.9 |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,111 | 7.9 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,068 | 5.5 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,718 | 4.5 |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,038 | 5.7 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,607 | 5.0 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,478 | 4.2 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,254 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lynetta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lynetta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 63 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lynetta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lynetta, and how old are they?
1,230 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 84% of the 1,466 Americans ever recorded as Lynetta. The median Lynetta alive today is 59 years old; half are between 50 and 68.
The 2020 Census counted 1,147 people named Lynetta (1,147 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,300 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 42 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 478 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 512 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 196 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5 |
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 65,509 babies since 1880, Lynetta is the fourth most given (2.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 89 babies recorded by SSA was a Lynetta (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 Lynetta
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 Lynetta and names like it
- Compare Lynetta and LynetteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sLynetta peaked in 1970.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lynetta since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Lynetta.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Lynetta alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with LMost given first.