Lynley
Lynley was given to 22 girls in 2025, #5,648 among girls’ names; 991 Americans have been recorded with it since 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lynley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lynley?
#5,648 among girls’ names, 2025
Lynley fell from #4,266 in 2015 to #5,648 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 19.0 to 13.7 per million.
46 babies in 2016, the peak
Lynley peaked in 2016, when 46 girls were given it, #3,449 among girls’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 48% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,648 | 13.7 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,232 | 15.4 |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,324 | 15.0 |
| 2022 | 20 | #6,125 | 12.2 |
| 2021 | 40 | #3,775 | 24.4 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,221 | 11.8 |
| 2019 | 43 | #3,592 | 25.6 |
| 2018 | 40 | #3,768 | 23.5 |
| 2017 | 34 | #4,274 | 19.7 |
| 2016 | 46 | #3,449 | 26.0 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 34 | #4,266 | 19.0 |
| 2014 | 33 | #4,416 | 18.5 |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,498 | 18.2 |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,498 | 14.2 |
| 2011 | 31 | #4,636 | 17.6 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,094 | 12.4 |
| 2009 | 23 | #6,014 | 12.5 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,261 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,710 | 10.4 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,475 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,353 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,663 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,126 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,684 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,611 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,528 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,711 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,485 | 5.2 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,130 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,778 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,195 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,821 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,128 | 8.0 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,927 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 22 | #4,308 | 11.9 |
| 1988 | 26 | #3,645 | 14.6 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,172 | 6.9 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,306 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,850 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,493 | 6.0 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,227 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,831 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,650 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,483 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,196 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,639 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,760 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,239 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,594 | 6.8 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,303 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,808 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,650 | 6.9 |
| 1969 | 19 | #3,158 | 11.3 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,690 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,195 | 6.7 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,099 | 6.5 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,589 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,525 | 5.3 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,931 | 6.2 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,422 | 5.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lynley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lynley has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lynley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lynley, and how old are they?
An estimated 967 Americans named Lynley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 9 and 37. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 842 people named Lynley (830 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 828 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
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 7 names spelled alike, given to 6,295 babies since 1880, Lynley is the fourth most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 310 babies (7.1%), again the fourth 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 Lynley
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 Lynley and names like it
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