Meaning not yet researched.
Linsey: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #631 in 1985.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #631 in 1985; #12,639 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Linsey in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,639 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1985, at #631.
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Linsey: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 girls in 2025. Peak: #631 in 1985 · most girls in one year: 296 (1985).
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Linsey, making it the 12,639th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,887 places from #14,526 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 6 girls named Linsey in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #631, reached in 1985. That year also had the most girls given the name: 296. For comparison, it was #6,368 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Linsey in 88 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1904 with 5 babies. In all, 5,365 US babies have been given the name, 96% of them girls and 4.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 2,182 babies named Linsey.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 100 US girls were named Linsey; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 16. In 2025 that was about 1 in 229,610 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Lynsey (4,929 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Linzy, Lynnsey and Linzey are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Linzy (1,539), Lynnsey (775), Linzey (341), Linsy (299), Linzee (290), Lincy (210), Lynsee (131), Linsie (123), Linsi (77), Lynsy (41), Lynzey (37), Lensey (35), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Linsey in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,639 | — | — |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,526 | — | — |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,315 | — | — |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,813 | — | — |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,775 | — | — |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,977 | — | — |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,943 | — | — |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,290 | — | — |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,831 | — | — |
| 2015 | 20 | #6,368 | — | — |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,109 | — | — |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,938 | — | — |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,445 | — | — |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,303 | — | — |
| 2010 | 28 | #5,046 | — | — |
| 2009 | 37 | #4,154 | — | — |
| 2008 | 45 | #3,620 | — | — |
| 2007 | 65 | #2,808 | — | — |
| 2006 | 73 | #2,528 | — | — |
| 2005 | 86 | #2,151 | — | — |
| 2004 | 98 | #1,919 | — | — |
| 2003 | 93 | #1,962 | — | — |
| 2002 | 90 | #1,960 | — | — |
| 2001 | 118 | #1,579 | — | — |
| 2000 | 110 | #1,612 | — | — |
| 1999 | 117 | #1,480 | — | — |
| 1998 | 121 | #1,427 | — | — |
| 1997 | 95 | #1,664 | — | — |
| 1996 | 143 | #1,228 | 5 | #9,934 |
| 1995 | 120 | #1,374 | — | — |
| 1994 | 154 | #1,159 | — | — |
| 1993 | 154 | #1,152 | — | — |
| 1992 | 187 | #1,008 | — | — |
| 1991 | 167 | #1,084 | — | — |
| 1990 | 186 | #991 | 6 | #7,724 |
| 1989 | 169 | #1,014 | — | — |
| 1988 | 200 | #883 | — | — |
| 1987 | 214 | #817 | — | — |
| 1986 | 191 | #871 | 6 | #6,404 |
| 1985 | 296 | #631 | — | — |
| 1984 | 258 | #668 | 8 | #4,808 |
| 1983 | 233 | #717 | 9 | #4,356 |
| 1982 | 267 | #666 | — | — |
| 1981 | 182 | #856 | — | — |
| 1980 | 149 | #991 | — | — |
| 1979 | 145 | #985 | — | — |
| 1978 | 87 | #1,362 | — | — |
| 1977 | 74 | #1,491 | — | — |
| 1976 | 52 | #1,805 | 5 | #6,129 |
| 1975 | 28 | #2,712 | — | — |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,607 | — | — |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,831 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,019 | — | — |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,023 | — | — |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,735 | — | — |
| 1969 | — | — | 7 | #3,801 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,423 | — | — |
| 1965 | — | — | 6 | #3,765 |
| 1963 | — | — | 5 | #4,393 |
| 1961 | — | — | 7 | #3,545 |
| 1959 | — | — | 7 | #3,468 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,608 | — | — |
| 1956 | — | — | 5 | #4,252 |
| 1955 | — | — | 11 | #2,507 |
| 1954 | — | — | 8 | #3,084 |
| 1953 | — | — | 11 | #2,472 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,045 | — | — |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,848 | 6 | #3,575 |
| 1949 | — | — | 7 | #3,183 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,670 | 6 | #3,531 |
| 1943 | — | — | 7 | #3,115 |
| 1941 | — | — | 5 | #3,808 |
| 1940 | — | — | 6 | #3,325 |
| 1939 | — | — | 6 | #3,326 |
| 1936 | — | — | 5 | #3,852 |
| 1935 | — | — | 6 | #3,484 |
| 1932 | — | — | 6 | #3,607 |
| 1931 | — | — | 6 | #3,611 |
| 1930 | — | — | 6 | #3,839 |
| 1928 | — | — | 7 | #3,571 |
| 1927 | — | — | 9 | #3,052 |
| 1925 | — | — | 7 | #3,598 |
| 1922 | — | — | 6 | #4,116 |
| 1920 | — | — | 10 | #2,881 |
| 1919 | — | — | 8 | #3,273 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,320 |
| 1915 | — | — | 5 | #4,154 |
| 1904 | — | — | 5 | #1,318 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).