Lynn — #2793 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Lynn

The Social Security Administration has registered 182,316 babies named Lynn between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Lynn currently holds the #2793 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1956, when 7,736 babies received it in a single year. Lynn is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 52,375 additional births since 1880.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Lynn performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 66,047 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Lynn shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 22,090 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Lynn in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Lynn 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 182,316 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.