Lynsie
Lynsie was last recorded in 2018, when 5 babies were given it; 966 Americans have been recorded with it between 1977 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lynsie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lynsie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,162, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
53 babies in 1986, the peak
Lynsie peaked in 1986, when 53 girls were given it, #2,039 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 5 | #17,162 | 2.9 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,768 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,936 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 6 | #15,998 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,379 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,758 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,787 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,364 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,837 | 12.1 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,158 | 7.6 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 24 | #5,313 | 13.1 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,176 | 13.1 |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,937 | 18.4 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,477 | 11.7 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,077 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,555 | 10.7 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,270 | 11.3 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,137 | 11.5 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,393 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 36 | #3,188 | 20.5 |
| 1994 | 38 | #3,067 | 21.3 |
| 1993 | 40 | #2,966 | 22.1 |
| 1992 | 31 | #3,544 | 16.8 |
| 1991 | 36 | #3,124 | 19.2 |
| 1990 | 46 | #2,585 | 24.2 |
| 1989 | 50 | #2,347 | 27.1 |
| 1988 | 39 | #2,722 | 21.9 |
| 1987 | 43 | #2,416 | 24.7 |
| 1986 | 53 | #2,039 | 30.9 |
| 1985 | 49 | #2,153 | 28.5 |
| 1984 | 41 | #2,362 | 24.3 |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,113 | 16.2 |
| 1982 | 44 | #2,271 | 26.0 |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,199 | 16.2 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,236 | 10.8 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,281 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,795 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,148 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lynsie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Lynsie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Lynsie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lynsie, and how old are they?
An estimated 943 Americans named Lynsie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 27 and 40. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 866 people named Lynsie (863 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 949 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
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 Lynsie?
Lynsie is a less common spelling of Linsey: SSA has recorded 966 Lynsie and 5,365 Linsey since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 12,344 babies since 1880, Lynsie is the third most given (7.8% 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 Lynsie
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 Lynsie and names like it
- Compare Lynsie and LinseyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sLynsie peaked in 1986.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lynsie since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Lynsie.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Lynsie alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.