Fewer than five US girls were named Lyndsay in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #495, reached in 1983. The most girls given the name in a single year was 403, in 1982. For comparison, it was #9,895 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lyndsay in 48 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 5 babies. In all, 6,716 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 3,358 babies named Lyndsay.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 48 US girls were named Lyndsay; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 13.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Lindsay (135,501 babies since 1880) and Lyndsey (14,420 babies since 1880).
Meaning
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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.