Lynsey
Lynsey was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 4,929 Americans have been recorded with it between 1966 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,800 Americans named Lynsey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 29 and 42.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lynsey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lynsey?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,930, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
254 babies in 1982, the peak
Lynsey peaked in 1982, when 254 girls were given it, #693 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #12,930 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,558 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,290 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,022 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,063 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,419 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,815 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,277 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,244 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,380 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 14 | #8,460 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,038 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,543 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 33 | #4,542 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 30 | #4,966 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,691 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 56 | #3,038 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 74 | #2,391 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 89 | #2,055 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 82 | #2,133 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 99 | #1,815 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 106 | #1,708 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 121 | #1,512 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 122 | #1,438 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 146 | #1,248 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 125 | #1,373 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 133 | #1,302 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 165 | #1,081 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 147 | #1,198 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 177 | #1,039 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 168 | #1,078 | 0.09 |
| 1991 | 199 | #954 | 0.11 |
| 1990 | 186 | #990 | 0.10 |
| 1989 | 195 | #922 | 0.11 |
| 1988 | 246 | #760 | 0.14 |
| 1987 | 227 | #782 | 0.13 |
| 1986 | 216 | #784 | 0.13 |
| 1985 | 241 | #717 | 0.14 |
| 1984 | 223 | #734 | 0.13 |
| 1983 | 206 | #779 | 0.12 |
| 1982 | 254 | #693 | 0.15 |
| 1981 | 155 | #950 | 0.09 |
| 1980 | 108 | #1,224 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 146 | #981 | 0.09 |
| 1978 | 105 | #1,199 | 0.07 |
| 1977 | 57 | #1,790 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 55 | #1,740 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,746 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,285 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,193 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,111 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,584 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lynsey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lynsey has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lynsey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lynsey, and how old are they?
4,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 4,929 Americans ever recorded as Lynsey. The median Lynsey alive today is 36 years old; half are between 29 and 42.
The 2020 Census counted 4,560 people named Lynsey (4,542 women and girls, 18 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,811 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 483 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,050 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,160 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 106 |
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 Lynsey born?
The states with the most babies named Lynsey are California, Texas and Ohio, with 32% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 358 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 333 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 239 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 209 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 171 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 163 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 140 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 123 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Tennessee | 108 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 106 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Lynsey is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lynsey is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1966 it was given 1.1 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 Lynsey 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 13,729 babies since 1880, Lynsey is the second most given (36% of them).
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 Lynsey
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 Lynsey and names like it
- Compare Lynsey and LinseyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sLynsey peaked in 1982.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lynsey since 1910.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Lynsey.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Lynsey alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.