Meaning not yet researched.
Lyndsey: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 14 in 2025. Its best rank was #343 in 1983.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #343 in 1983; #7,723 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lyndsey in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,723 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1983, at #343.
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Lyndsey: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 14 girls in 2025. Peak: #343 in 1983 · most girls in one year: 687 (1990).
In 2025, 14 US girls were named Lyndsey, making it the 7,723rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 96 places from #7,819 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 14 girls named Lyndsey in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #343, reached in 1983. The most girls given the name in a single year was 687, in 1990. For comparison, it was #3,684 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lyndsey in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1964 with 5 babies. In all, 14,420 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 5,861 babies named Lyndsey.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 270 US girls were named Lyndsey; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 52. In 2025 that was about 1 in 114,805 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Lindsey (165,286 babies since 1880), Lyndsay (6,716 babies since 1880), Lindsy (2,158 babies since 1880) and Lyndsie (1,473 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lyndzee and Lyndzy 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: Lyndzee (63), Lyndzy (6).
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 Lyndsey 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 | 14 | #7,723 | — | — |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,819 | — | — |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,876 | — | — |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,571 | — | — |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,310 | — | — |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,417 | — | — |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,397 | — | — |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,894 | — | — |
| 2017 | 42 | #3,672 | — | — |
| 2016 | 52 | #3,169 | — | — |
| 2015 | 42 | #3,684 | — | — |
| 2014 | 55 | #3,063 | — | — |
| 2013 | 62 | #2,797 | — | — |
| 2012 | 82 | #2,304 | — | — |
| 2011 | 88 | #2,168 | — | — |
| 2010 | 107 | #1,891 | — | — |
| 2009 | 117 | #1,835 | — | — |
| 2008 | 169 | #1,412 | — | — |
| 2007 | 161 | #1,457 | — | — |
| 2006 | 214 | #1,148 | — | — |
| 2005 | 241 | #1,013 | — | — |
| 2004 | 260 | #928 | 5 | #12,492 |
| 2003 | 264 | #905 | — | — |
| 2002 | 252 | #892 | — | — |
| 2001 | 340 | #718 | — | — |
| 2000 | 392 | #639 | — | — |
| 1999 | 370 | #637 | — | — |
| 1998 | 372 | #627 | — | — |
| 1997 | 417 | #563 | — | — |
| 1996 | 385 | #593 | — | — |
| 1995 | 413 | #561 | — | — |
| 1994 | 504 | #494 | — | — |
| 1993 | 490 | #504 | — | — |
| 1992 | 546 | #455 | — | — |
| 1991 | 601 | #424 | — | — |
| 1990 | 687 | #384 | — | — |
| 1989 | 606 | #408 | — | — |
| 1988 | 660 | #367 | — | — |
| 1987 | 623 | #377 | 5 | #7,682 |
| 1986 | 663 | #359 | 6 | #6,417 |
| 1985 | 635 | #366 | — | — |
| 1984 | 657 | #350 | 6 | #6,050 |
| 1983 | 669 | #343 | 5 | #6,910 |
| 1982 | 634 | #365 | — | — |
| 1981 | 423 | #488 | 5 | #6,893 |
| 1980 | 264 | #668 | — | — |
| 1979 | 239 | #711 | — | — |
| 1978 | 174 | #851 | — | — |
| 1977 | 104 | #1,188 | — | — |
| 1976 | 50 | #1,857 | — | — |
| 1975 | 34 | #2,387 | — | — |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,503 | — | — |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,416 | — | — |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,738 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,146 | — | — |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,251 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,377 | — | — |
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).