Meaning not yet researched.
Lynden: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 35 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,081 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,081 in 2020; #4,136 in 2025. About 60% of babies named Lynden in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,136 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #3,081.
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Lynden: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 35 girls in 2025. Peak: #3,081 in 2020 · most girls in one year: 52 (2020).
In 2025, 35 US girls were named Lynden, making it the 4,136th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,098 places from #5,234 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 25 girls named Lynden in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,081, reached in 2020. That year also had the most girls given the name: 52. For comparison, it was #5,590 in 2015 and #5,066 in 1950.
In 2025, 23 US boys were named Lynden, making it the 4,485th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,323 places from #5,808 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 16 boys named Lynden in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,610, reached in 1945. The most boys given the name in a single year was 41, in 2014. For comparison, it was #3,337 in 2015 and #1,988 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lynden in 101 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 10 babies. In all, 2,272 US babies have been given the name, 34% of them girls and 66% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 660 babies named Lynden.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 368 US girls were named Lynden; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 52. In 2025 that was about 1 in 45,922 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Lyndon (10,120 babies since 1880) and Linden (6,100 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Lynden 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 | 35 | #4,136 | 23 | #4,485 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,234 | 16 | #5,808 |
| 2023 | 26 | #5,073 | 22 | #4,681 |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,427 | 20 | #4,956 |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,914 | 24 | #4,324 |
| 2020 | 52 | #3,081 | 20 | #4,801 |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,761 | 25 | #4,188 |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,978 | 38 | #3,082 |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,745 | 35 | #3,287 |
| 2016 | 42 | #3,685 | 35 | #3,267 |
| 2015 | 24 | #5,590 | 34 | #3,337 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,393 | 41 | #2,870 |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,303 | 29 | #3,630 |
| 2012 | 30 | #4,785 | 29 | #3,676 |
| 2011 | 22 | #6,062 | 26 | #3,958 |
| 2010 | 36 | #4,153 | 37 | #3,113 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,717 | 32 | #3,446 |
| 2008 | 19 | #6,969 | 24 | #4,215 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,308 | 27 | #3,856 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,663 | 27 | #3,738 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,711 | 22 | #4,141 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,039 | 16 | #5,160 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,996 | 24 | #3,689 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,282 | 14 | #5,297 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,614 | 17 | #4,608 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,601 | 14 | #5,216 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,975 | 14 | #4,925 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,717 | 19 | #3,798 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,393 | 6 | #8,843 |
| 1996 | — | — | 9 | #6,311 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,240 | 17 | #3,787 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,138 | 14 | #4,442 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,769 | 10 | #5,635 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,684 | 13 | #4,484 |
| 1991 | — | — | 11 | #4,974 |
| 1990 | — | — | 11 | #4,878 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,379 | 9 | #5,434 |
| 1988 | — | — | 11 | #4,345 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,435 | 10 | #4,452 |
| 1986 | — | — | 10 | #4,339 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,716 | 8 | #4,991 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,426 | 7 | #5,340 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,254 | 11 | #3,777 |
| 1982 | — | — | 7 | #5,373 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,652 | 6 | #5,960 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #6,872 |
| 1979 | — | — | 5 | #6,668 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,572 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,355 |
| 1975 | — | — | 8 | #4,164 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,576 |
| 1971 | — | — | 5 | #5,366 |
| 1966 | — | — | 9 | #2,902 |
| 1965 | — | — | 7 | #3,437 |
| 1964 | — | — | 9 | #2,981 |
| 1963 | — | — | 15 | #2,168 |
| 1962 | — | — | 13 | #2,327 |
| 1961 | — | — | 21 | #1,802 |
| 1960 | — | — | 22 | #1,752 |
| 1959 | — | — | 13 | #2,367 |
| 1958 | — | — | 12 | #2,455 |
| 1957 | — | — | 15 | #2,154 |
| 1956 | — | — | 14 | #2,223 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,368 | 13 | #2,274 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,260 | 13 | #2,275 |
| 1953 | — | — | 13 | #2,247 |
| 1952 | — | — | 12 | #2,334 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,886 | 11 | #2,449 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,066 | 15 | #1,988 |
| 1949 | — | — | 18 | #1,797 |
| 1948 | — | — | 19 | #1,744 |
| 1947 | — | — | 17 | #1,889 |
| 1946 | — | — | 12 | #2,226 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,968 | 18 | #1,610 |
| 1944 | — | — | 14 | #1,938 |
| 1943 | — | — | 13 | #2,134 |
| 1942 | — | — | 20 | #1,616 |
| 1941 | — | — | 14 | #1,962 |
| 1940 | — | — | 14 | #1,952 |
| 1939 | — | — | 7 | #3,013 |
| 1938 | — | — | 11 | #2,273 |
| 1937 | — | — | 13 | #2,054 |
| 1936 | — | — | 5 | #3,864 |
| 1934 | — | — | 10 | #2,498 |
| 1933 | — | — | 10 | #2,474 |
| 1932 | — | — | 9 | #2,766 |
| 1931 | — | — | 5 | #4,116 |
| 1930 | — | — | 8 | #3,183 |
| 1929 | — | — | 9 | #2,881 |
| 1928 | — | — | 11 | #2,589 |
| 1927 | — | — | 5 | #4,563 |
| 1925 | — | — | 11 | #2,689 |
| 1924 | — | — | 6 | #4,162 |
| 1923 | — | — | 10 | #2,872 |
| 1922 | — | — | 7 | #3,736 |
| 1921 | — | — | 8 | #3,391 |
| 1920 | — | — | 11 | #2,704 |
| 1919 | — | — | 10 | #2,797 |
| 1918 | — | — | 9 | #3,013 |
| 1917 | — | — | 7 | #3,434 |
| 1915 | — | — | 10 | #2,556 |
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).