Lynnea
Lynnea was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,845 among girls’ names; 1,762 Americans have been recorded with it since 1938 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,620 Americans named Lynnea and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 18 and 53.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lynnea by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Lynnea mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Lynnea is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Lynnea?
#9,845 among girls’ names, 2025
Lynnea fell from #7,147 in 2015 to #9,845 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.5 to 6.2 per million.
43 babies in 2011, the peak
Lynnea peaked in 2011, when 43 girls were given it, #3,638 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,845 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,113 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 20 | #6,084 | 12.5 |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,108 | 15.9 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,563 | 11.0 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,767 | 13.0 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,726 | 17.3 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,707 | 12.9 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,117 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,315 | 11.3 |
Every recorded year (87)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #7,147 | 9.5 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,909 | 12.3 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,754 | 13.1 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,560 | 18.2 |
| 2011 | 43 | #3,638 | 24.4 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,896 | 12.9 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,435 | 18.5 |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,058 | 12.2 |
| 2007 | 23 | #6,012 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 28 | #5,043 | 14.7 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,901 | 14.6 |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,772 | 15.2 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,335 | 12.6 |
| 2002 | 35 | #3,769 | 19.5 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,495 | 9.4 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,127 | 16.5 |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,961 | 12.4 |
| 1998 | 33 | #3,605 | 18.7 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,455 | 13.8 |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,520 | 13.1 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,435 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,942 | 11.2 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,741 | 11.6 |
| 1992 | 35 | #3,241 | 19.0 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,585 | 11.7 |
| 1990 | 31 | #3,474 | 16.3 |
| 1989 | 30 | #3,440 | 16.3 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,762 | 10.1 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,399 | 10.9 |
| 1986 | 23 | #3,713 | 13.4 |
| 1985 | 20 | #4,074 | 11.6 |
| 1984 | 31 | #2,887 | 18.4 |
| 1983 | 24 | #3,392 | 14.4 |
| 1982 | 34 | #2,739 | 20.1 |
| 1981 | 23 | #3,581 | 13.8 |
| 1980 | 30 | #2,970 | 18.1 |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,731 | 13.1 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,587 | 13.7 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,850 | 12.4 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,494 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 24 | #3,014 | 16.5 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,593 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,571 | 12.3 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,480 | 11.8 |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,592 | 10.8 |
| 1970 | 24 | #2,899 | 13.7 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,713 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,250 | 10.4 |
| 1967 | 18 | #3,023 | 10.9 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,358 | 5.9 |
| 1965 | 22 | #2,653 | 12.5 |
| 1964 | 19 | #2,969 | 10.0 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,730 | 6.7 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,162 | 5.6 |
| 1961 | 19 | #2,907 | 9.4 |
| 1960 | 17 | #3,052 | 8.4 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,360 | 6.9 |
| 1958 | 15 | #3,178 | 7.5 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,416 | 6.4 |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,681 | 9.5 |
| 1955 | 20 | #2,512 | 10.2 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,611 | 5.7 |
| 1953 | 15 | #2,883 | 8.0 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,998 | 7.5 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,764 | 8.3 |
| 1950 | 20 | #2,224 | 11.7 |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,684 | 8.8 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,496 | 5.9 |
| 1947 | 16 | #2,592 | 9.0 |
| 1946 | 28 | #1,698 | 17.8 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,291 | 6.9 |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,164 | 12.8 |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,039 | 5.0 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,122 | 7.4 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,794 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,392 | 7.0 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,720 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lynnea a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lynnea has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 87 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lynnea: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lynnea, and how old are they?
1,620 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 1,762 Americans ever recorded as Lynnea. The median Lynnea alive today is 34 years old; half are between 18 and 53.
The 2020 Census counted 1,472 people named Lynnea (1,471 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,559 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 30 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 234 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 276 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 386 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 440 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 256 |
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 Lynnea?
Lynnea is a less common spelling of Linnea: SSA has recorded 1,762 Lynnea and 9,944 Linnea since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 83,165 babies since 1880, Lynnea is the fourth most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 509 babies (2.0%), the fifth 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 Lynnea
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 Lynnea and names like it
- Compare Lynnea and LinneaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sLynnea peaked in 2011.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lynnea since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Lynnea.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Lynnea alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with LMost given first.