Lynna
Lynna was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,150 among girls’ names; 1,724 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,470 Americans named Lynna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 50 years old and half are between 29 and 65.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lynna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lynna mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lynna is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lynna?
#8,150 among girls’ names, 2025
Lynna rose from #9,891 in 2015 to #8,150 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.2 to 8.1 per million.
40 babies in 1963, the peak
Lynna peaked in 1963, when 40 girls were given it, #1,852 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,150 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,928 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,782 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,123 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,767 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,444 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,878 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,269 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,311 | 4.6 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,690 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (96)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #9,891 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,617 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,248 | 9.7 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,478 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,302 | 9.7 |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,029 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,923 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,368 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,285 | 9.4 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,526 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,707 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,880 | 11.4 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,466 | 9.9 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,279 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,637 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,920 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,068 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,932 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,329 | 10.9 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,390 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,772 | 11.9 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,184 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,828 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,390 | 9.8 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,828 | 8.5 |
| 1990 | 25 | #4,066 | 13.2 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,444 | 8.7 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,210 | 9.0 |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,378 | 15.5 |
| 1986 | 26 | #3,417 | 15.2 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,931 | 12.2 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,875 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,801 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 18 | #4,262 | 10.6 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,448 | 10.2 |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,080 | 11.4 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,065 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 18 | #4,007 | 11.8 |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,963 | 17.6 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,892 | 11.6 |
| 1975 | 36 | #2,307 | 24.7 |
| 1974 | 30 | #2,534 | 20.4 |
| 1973 | 22 | #3,076 | 15.1 |
| 1972 | 27 | #2,643 | 17.7 |
| 1971 | 27 | #2,700 | 16.2 |
| 1970 | 40 | #2,067 | 22.9 |
| 1969 | 23 | #2,806 | 13.6 |
| 1968 | 21 | #2,832 | 12.8 |
| 1967 | 29 | #2,247 | 17.6 |
| 1966 | 17 | #3,110 | 10.0 |
| 1965 | 23 | #2,578 | 13.0 |
| 1964 | 23 | #2,634 | 12.1 |
| 1963 | 40 | #1,852 | 20.8 |
| 1962 | 23 | #2,577 | 11.7 |
| 1961 | 37 | #1,907 | 18.3 |
| 1960 | 22 | #2,615 | 10.9 |
| 1959 | 28 | #2,175 | 13.8 |
| 1958 | 29 | #2,097 | 14.4 |
| 1957 | 29 | #2,048 | 14.2 |
| 1956 | 18 | #2,781 | 9.0 |
| 1955 | 29 | #2,003 | 14.8 |
| 1954 | 24 | #2,214 | 12.4 |
| 1953 | 27 | #1,995 | 14.4 |
| 1952 | 27 | #1,961 | 14.6 |
| 1951 | 34 | #1,650 | 18.9 |
| 1950 | 29 | #1,778 | 16.9 |
| 1949 | 24 | #1,993 | 14.0 |
| 1948 | 29 | #1,759 | 17.1 |
| 1947 | 25 | #1,974 | 14.1 |
| 1946 | 21 | #2,064 | 13.4 |
| 1945 | 17 | #2,118 | 13.0 |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,163 | 12.8 |
| 1943 | 20 | #1,974 | 14.3 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,965 | 5.2 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,812 | 5.8 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,878 | 8.7 |
| 1939 | 14 | #2,269 | 12.8 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,401 | 11.8 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,661 | 10.3 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,595 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,341 | 7.7 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,529 | 7.1 |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,001 | 4.5 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,296 | 4.2 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,255 | 4.4 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,282 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lynna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lynna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 96 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lynna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lynna, and how old are they?
1,470 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 85% of the 1,724 Americans ever recorded as Lynna. The median Lynna alive today is 50 years old; half are between 29 and 65.
The 2020 Census counted 1,532 people named Lynna (1,529 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,486 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 57 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 403 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 357 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 281 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 241 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 130 |
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).
How common is the spelling Lynna?
Lynna is a less common spelling of Lina: SSA has recorded 1,724 Lynna and 19,494 Lina since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 126,211 babies since 1880, Lynna is the eighth most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 2,027 babies (<1%), the sixth most given that year.
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 Lynna
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 Lynna and names like it
- Compare Lynna and LinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sLynna peaked in 1963.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lynna since 1910.
- The top names of 1963The year the most babies were named Lynna.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lynna alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.