Meaning not yet researched.
Lyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #534 in 1953.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #534 in 1953; #10,579 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,579 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1953, at #534.
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Lyn: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 girls in 2025. Peak: #534 in 1953 · most girls in one year: 280 (1957).
In 2025, 9 US girls were named Lyn, making it the 10,579th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,162 places from #11,741 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 8 girls named Lyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #534, reached in 1953. The most girls given the name in a single year was 280, in 1957. For comparison, it was #15,650 in 2015 and #631 in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Lyn in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #882, reached in 1950. That year also had the most boys given the name: 61. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and #882 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lyn in 107 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1896 with 5 babies. In all, 8,781 US babies have been given the name, 82% of them girls and 18% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 2,887 babies named Lyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 43 US girls were named Lyn; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 9. In 2025 that was about 1 in 178,585 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Lynn (234,778 babies since 1880), Linn (2,294 babies since 1880), Lin (1,897 babies since 1880) and Leon (184,074 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
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 Lyn 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 | 9 | #10,579 | — | — |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,741 | — | — |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,622 | — | — |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,585 | — | — |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,549 | — | — |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,441 | — | — |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,650 | — | — |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,211 | — | — |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,414 | — | — |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,220 | — | — |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,992 | — | — |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,443 | — | — |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,672 | — | — |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,359 | — | — |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,337 | — | — |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,885 | — | — |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,634 | — | — |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,276 | — | — |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,687 | — | — |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,641 | — | — |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,534 | — | — |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,845 | — | — |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,574 | — | — |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,115 | — | — |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,860 | — | — |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,853 | — | — |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,523 | 7 | #7,454 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,885 | 5 | #9,605 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,515 | — | — |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,830 | — | — |
| 1990 | 24 | #4,181 | 7 | #6,887 |
| 1989 | 19 | #4,777 | 6 | #7,548 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,766 | — | — |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,585 | 5 | #7,681 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,344 | — | — |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,373 | 8 | #4,990 |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,814 | 5 | #6,947 |
| 1983 | 29 | #2,950 | 5 | #6,909 |
| 1982 | 32 | #2,874 | 10 | #4,119 |
| 1981 | 39 | #2,471 | 7 | #5,267 |
| 1980 | 37 | #2,569 | 8 | #4,777 |
| 1979 | 50 | #2,037 | 11 | #3,726 |
| 1978 | 40 | #2,291 | 8 | #4,412 |
| 1977 | 48 | #2,011 | 9 | #4,037 |
| 1976 | 51 | #1,828 | 9 | #3,891 |
| 1975 | 71 | #1,455 | 12 | #3,174 |
| 1974 | 60 | #1,589 | 10 | #3,471 |
| 1973 | 81 | #1,283 | 17 | #2,370 |
| 1972 | 81 | #1,271 | 14 | #2,614 |
| 1971 | 111 | #1,091 | 31 | #1,582 |
| 1970 | 106 | #1,115 | 25 | #1,774 |
| 1969 | 120 | #988 | 28 | #1,548 |
| 1968 | 122 | #937 | 49 | #1,061 |
| 1967 | 145 | #840 | 20 | #1,795 |
| 1966 | 131 | #878 | 22 | #1,674 |
| 1965 | 161 | #783 | 25 | #1,580 |
| 1964 | 201 | #733 | 35 | #1,341 |
| 1963 | 198 | #729 | 32 | #1,393 |
| 1962 | 279 | #597 | 23 | #1,696 |
| 1961 | 214 | #711 | 34 | #1,380 |
| 1960 | 216 | #693 | 34 | #1,377 |
| 1959 | 200 | #707 | 44 | #1,180 |
| 1958 | 238 | #638 | 27 | #1,524 |
| 1957 | 280 | #577 | 35 | #1,339 |
| 1956 | 277 | #564 | 41 | #1,199 |
| 1955 | 268 | #554 | 36 | #1,265 |
| 1954 | 274 | #536 | 56 | #1,003 |
| 1953 | 261 | #534 | 51 | #1,018 |
| 1952 | 245 | #547 | 45 | #1,090 |
| 1951 | 223 | #574 | 43 | #1,104 |
| 1950 | 182 | #631 | 61 | #882 |
| 1949 | 195 | #594 | 42 | #1,090 |
| 1948 | 200 | #588 | 44 | #1,069 |
| 1947 | 225 | #569 | 59 | #912 |
| 1946 | 204 | #554 | 50 | #949 |
| 1945 | 138 | #619 | 28 | #1,259 |
| 1944 | 125 | #661 | 37 | #1,098 |
| 1943 | 104 | #760 | 29 | #1,298 |
| 1942 | 77 | #895 | 27 | #1,345 |
| 1941 | 60 | #952 | 36 | #1,101 |
| 1940 | 59 | #940 | 27 | #1,301 |
| 1939 | 52 | #985 | 26 | #1,312 |
| 1938 | 35 | #1,241 | 18 | #1,661 |
| 1937 | 32 | #1,296 | 20 | #1,563 |
| 1936 | 23 | #1,575 | 19 | #1,577 |
| 1935 | 20 | #1,749 | 10 | #2,480 |
| 1934 | 28 | #1,393 | 18 | #1,706 |
| 1933 | 18 | #1,885 | 10 | #2,473 |
| 1932 | 18 | #1,922 | 8 | #3,004 |
| 1931 | 26 | #1,482 | 9 | #2,796 |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,379 | 9 | #2,922 |
| 1929 | 15 | #2,260 | — | — |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,461 | 6 | #3,974 |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,639 | 7 | #3,663 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,654 | 6 | #4,014 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,748 | — | — |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,759 | — | — |
| 1923 | — | — | 6 | #4,080 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,838 | 10 | #2,911 |
| 1920 | — | — | 6 | #4,094 |
| 1919 | — | — | 6 | #3,999 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,612 | — | — |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,995 | 6 | #3,814 |
| 1916 | — | — | 6 | #3,732 |
| 1915 | 9 | #3,032 | 6 | #3,676 |
| 1914 | — | — | 5 | #3,564 |
| 1896 | — | — | 5 | #1,201 |
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).