Lynne
Lynne was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,255 among girls’ names; 62,415 Americans have been recorded with it since 1907 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 46,700 Americans named Lynne and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (75% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 62 and 75.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lynne by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lynne mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lynne is “a female given name transferred from the surname, of common usage, variant of Lynn.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lynne?
#14,255 among girls’ names, 2025
Lynne fell from #10,580 in 2015 to #14,255 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 5.6 to 3.7 per million.
2,471 babies in 1960, the peak
Lynne peaked in 1960, when 2,471 babies were given it (2,458 girls, #164 among girls’ names). The 6 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,255 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,553 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,775 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,836 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,556 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,716 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,893 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,417 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,585 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,835 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (119)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #10,580 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,625 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,377 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,329 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,768 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,550 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,963 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,673 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,547 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 18 | #7,026 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,157 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,967 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,883 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,701 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,749 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,354 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 40 | #3,222 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 27 | #4,192 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,316 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 34 | #3,393 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 44 | #2,759 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 41 | #2,912 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 42 | #2,855 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 55 | #2,362 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 75 | #1,881 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 80 | #1,805 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 87 | #1,607 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 103 | #1,378 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 112 | #1,263 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 114 | #1,218 | 0.07 |
| 1985 | 118 | #1,197 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 132 | #1,062 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 167 | #904 | 0.10 |
| 1982 | 168 | #903 | 0.10 |
| 1981 | 175 | #876 | 0.10 |
| 1980 | 212 | #781 | 0.13 |
| 1979 | 205 | #780 | 0.13 |
| 1978 | 221 | #715 | 0.14 |
| 1977 | 226 | #694 | 0.15 |
| 1976 | 205 | #718 | 0.14 |
| 1975 | 219 | #685 | 0.15 |
| 1974 | 279 | #573 | 0.19 |
| 1973 | 351 | #497 | 0.24 |
| 1972 | 424 | #445 | 0.28 |
| 1971 | 549 | #395 | 0.33 |
| 1970 | 662 | #368 | 0.38 |
| 1969 | 811 | #317 | 0.48 |
| 1968 | 945 | #282 | 0.58 |
| 1967 | 1,068 | #256 | 0.65 |
| 1966 | 1,172 | #246 | 0.69 |
| 1965 | 1,501 | #219 | 0.85 |
| 1964 | 1,893 | #194 | 1.0 |
| 1963 | 2,201 | #174 | 1.1 |
| 1962 | 2,458 | #164 | 1.2 |
| 1961 | 2,400 | #170 | 1.2 |
| 1960 | 2,458 | #164 | 1.2 |
| 1959 | 2,234 | #172 | 1.1 |
| 1958 | 2,135 | #176 | 1.1 |
| 1957 | 2,373 | #160 | 1.2 |
| 1956 | 2,369 | #156 | 1.2 |
| 1955 | 2,349 | #155 | 1.2 |
| 1954 | 2,267 | #157 | 1.2 |
| 1953 | 2,041 | #159 | 1.1 |
| 1952 | 2,265 | #150 | 1.2 |
| 1951 | 2,221 | #144 | 1.2 |
| 1950 | 1,940 | #153 | 1.1 |
| 1949 | 1,836 | #159 | 1.1 |
| 1948 | 1,682 | #166 | 1.0 |
| 1947 | 1,971 | #149 | 1.1 |
| 1946 | 1,764 | #153 | 1.1 |
| 1945 | 1,524 | #153 | 1.2 |
| 1944 | 1,226 | #174 | 0.92 |
| 1943 | 1,311 | #178 | 0.94 |
| 1942 | 1,235 | #180 | 0.91 |
| 1941 | 944 | #200 | 0.78 |
| 1940 | 742 | #226 | 0.65 |
| 1939 | 688 | #236 | 0.63 |
| 1938 | 598 | #258 | 0.54 |
| 1937 | 403 | #309 | 0.38 |
| 1936 | 286 | #376 | 0.27 |
| 1935 | 171 | #483 | 0.16 |
| 1934 | 159 | #511 | 0.15 |
| 1933 | 90 | #685 | 0.09 |
| 1932 | 67 | #851 | 0.06 |
| 1931 | 55 | #938 | 0.05 |
| 1930 | 35 | #1,282 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 24 | #1,624 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 24 | #1,713 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 36 | #1,345 | 0.03 |
| 1926 | 34 | #1,376 | 0.03 |
| 1925 | 36 | #1,334 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 28 | #1,632 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 34 | #1,371 | 0.03 |
| 1922 | 20 | #1,997 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 19 | #2,086 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 32 | #1,429 | 0.03 |
| 1919 | 27 | #1,547 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 28 | #1,519 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 25 | #1,535 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 21 | #1,724 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 20 | #1,716 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,520 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,973 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,070 | 0.02 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,362 | 0.01 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,309 | 0.02 |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,549 | 0.03 |
| 1908 | 9 | #1,499 | 0.03 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,587 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lynne a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lynne has been given almost only to girls: 458 boys in 119 years of records.
Girls and boys named Lynne: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lynne, and how old are they?
46,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 75% of the 62,415 Americans ever recorded as Lynne. The median Lynne alive today is 68 years old; half are between 62 and 75.
The 2020 Census counted 54,525 people named Lynne (54,310 women and girls, 215 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 51,272 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 4,390 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 32,000 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 8,290 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,500 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 347 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 132 |
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 Lynne born?
The states with the most babies named Lynne are New York, California and Pennsylvania, with 32% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 8,000 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| California | 5,437 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 5,235 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Massachusetts | 4,944 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Illinois | 3,711 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 3,677 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 3,586 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New Jersey | 2,665 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Wisconsin | 1,644 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Connecticut | 1,419 | not ranked | 1.7× |
Where Lynne is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lynne is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 1910 it was given 2.6 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 Lynne 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 95,218 babies since 1880, Lynne is the most given (66% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 521 babies (1.2%), the eighth 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 Lynne
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 Lynne and names like it
- Compare Lynne and LinneaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sLynne peaked in 1960.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lynne since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Lynne: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1960The year the most babies were named Lynne.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Lynne alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.