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Lyndsay

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Lyndsay is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 495th, in 1983.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
1982403 births
Best rank
#495in 1983
Since 1973
6,716people given the name
Babies named Lyndsay, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

6,716 girls have been named Lyndsay in the United States since 1973, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1982, with 403 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 403 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1988, and the 1980s alone account for 50%. It has spent 16 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadegirls named Lyndsay
1970s532
1980s3,358
1990s1,923
2000s742
2010s143
2020s18

In 1982, its biggest year

Lyndsay was the 502nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1982 were Jennifer, Jessica, Amanda, Sarah and Melissa. See all of 1982.

Names that rose and fell with Lyndsay

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.