Meaning not yet researched.
Lynette: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 66 in 2025. Its best rank was #225 in 1966.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #225 in 1966; #2,633 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lynette in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,633 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1966, at #225.
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Lynette: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 66 girls in 2025. Peak: #225 in 1966 · most girls in one year: 1,413 (1965).
In 2025, 66 US girls were named Lynette, making it the 2,633rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 105 places from #2,738 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 63 girls named Lynette in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #225, reached in 1966. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,413, in 1965. For comparison, it was #2,052 in 2015 and #269 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lynette in 120 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1897 with 6 babies. In all, 43,445 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 12,775 babies named Lynette.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 700 US girls were named Lynette; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 89. In 2025 that was about 1 in 24,353 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Lynette ranked highest in Washington in 2025, at #1,175 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Lynnette (15,226 babies since 1880) and Linette (4,285 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Linnette, Lenette and Lynett 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Linnette (1,144), Lenette (1,013), Lynett (473), Leonette (387), Lennette (356), Lynnett (271), Leanette (154), Lianette (108), Linett (37), Lynet (18), Lyneth (16), Lynnete (5), 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 Lynette in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 5 | #1,175 | — |
| California | 13 | #1,709 | #1,229 |
| Texas | 6 | #3,153 | #1,220 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 66 | #2,633 | — | — |
| 2024 | 63 | #2,738 | — | — |
| 2023 | 69 | #2,576 | — | — |
| 2022 | 64 | #2,714 | — | — |
| 2021 | 70 | #2,528 | — | — |
| 2020 | 78 | #2,297 | — | — |
| 2019 | 67 | #2,622 | — | — |
| 2018 | 65 | #2,668 | — | — |
| 2017 | 69 | #2,561 | — | — |
| 2016 | 89 | #2,182 | — | — |
| 2015 | 96 | #2,052 | — | — |
| 2014 | 77 | #2,384 | — | — |
| 2013 | 91 | #2,100 | — | — |
| 2012 | 102 | #1,933 | — | — |
| 2011 | 91 | #2,112 | — | — |
| 2010 | 106 | #1,907 | — | — |
| 2009 | 124 | #1,765 | — | — |
| 2008 | 127 | #1,751 | — | — |
| 2007 | 108 | #1,918 | — | — |
| 2006 | 113 | #1,819 | — | — |
| 2005 | 132 | #1,552 | — | — |
| 2004 | 125 | #1,582 | — | — |
| 2003 | 131 | #1,491 | — | — |
| 2002 | 109 | #1,690 | — | — |
| 2001 | 130 | #1,455 | — | — |
| 2000 | 126 | #1,466 | — | — |
| 1999 | 132 | #1,346 | — | — |
| 1998 | 115 | #1,488 | — | — |
| 1997 | 153 | #1,192 | — | — |
| 1996 | 140 | #1,251 | — | — |
| 1995 | 168 | #1,065 | — | — |
| 1994 | 186 | #999 | — | — |
| 1993 | 187 | #995 | — | — |
| 1992 | 240 | #834 | — | — |
| 1991 | 205 | #936 | — | — |
| 1990 | 238 | #823 | — | — |
| 1989 | 302 | #676 | — | — |
| 1988 | 277 | #693 | — | — |
| 1987 | 323 | #603 | — | — |
| 1986 | 322 | #601 | — | — |
| 1985 | 316 | #602 | — | — |
| 1984 | 342 | #552 | — | — |
| 1983 | 411 | #480 | — | — |
| 1982 | 393 | #511 | — | — |
| 1981 | 410 | #498 | — | — |
| 1980 | 433 | #485 | — | — |
| 1979 | 511 | #415 | — | — |
| 1978 | 458 | #437 | — | — |
| 1977 | 538 | #390 | — | — |
| 1976 | 580 | #364 | 5 | #6,137 |
| 1975 | 619 | #350 | — | — |
| 1974 | 621 | #349 | 6 | #5,006 |
| 1973 | 733 | #316 | — | — |
| 1972 | 983 | #268 | — | — |
| 1971 | 1,079 | #268 | 7 | #4,213 |
| 1970 | 1,157 | #264 | 5 | #5,166 |
| 1969 | 1,177 | #250 | — | — |
| 1968 | 1,286 | #229 | — | — |
| 1967 | 1,295 | #228 | 6 | #3,814 |
| 1966 | 1,331 | #225 | 6 | #3,770 |
| 1965 | 1,413 | #225 | — | — |
| 1964 | 1,309 | #242 | — | — |
| 1963 | 1,250 | #251 | 6 | #3,876 |
| 1962 | 1,208 | #258 | — | — |
| 1961 | 1,269 | #246 | 6 | #3,895 |
| 1960 | 1,213 | #253 | — | — |
| 1959 | 1,127 | #263 | 6 | #3,850 |
| 1958 | 1,113 | #262 | — | — |
| 1957 | 1,035 | #270 | — | — |
| 1956 | 1,137 | #248 | — | — |
| 1955 | 1,091 | #251 | — | — |
| 1954 | 1,065 | #252 | — | — |
| 1953 | 990 | #258 | — | — |
| 1952 | 889 | #268 | — | — |
| 1951 | 870 | #264 | — | — |
| 1950 | 811 | #269 | — | — |
| 1949 | 745 | #280 | — | — |
| 1948 | 608 | #312 | — | — |
| 1947 | 574 | #330 | — | — |
| 1946 | 457 | #354 | — | — |
| 1945 | 407 | #337 | — | — |
| 1944 | 261 | #449 | — | — |
| 1943 | 276 | #449 | — | — |
| 1942 | 243 | #473 | — | — |
| 1941 | 197 | #497 | — | — |
| 1940 | 145 | #582 | — | — |
| 1939 | 136 | #576 | — | — |
| 1938 | 118 | #633 | — | — |
| 1937 | 103 | #672 | — | — |
| 1936 | 102 | #655 | — | — |
| 1935 | 85 | #735 | — | — |
| 1934 | 69 | #813 | — | — |
| 1933 | 73 | #777 | — | — |
| 1932 | 68 | #841 | — | — |
| 1931 | 52 | #964 | — | — |
| 1930 | 45 | #1,111 | — | — |
| 1929 | 46 | #1,087 | — | — |
| 1928 | 41 | #1,198 | — | — |
| 1927 | 47 | #1,117 | — | — |
| 1926 | 50 | #1,062 | — | — |
| 1925 | 43 | #1,183 | — | — |
| 1924 | 55 | #1,056 | — | — |
| 1923 | 60 | #961 | — | — |
| 1922 | 40 | #1,242 | — | — |
| 1921 | 36 | #1,323 | — | — |
| 1920 | 37 | #1,266 | — | — |
| 1919 | 36 | #1,288 | — | — |
| 1918 | 31 | #1,398 | — | — |
| 1917 | 23 | #1,631 | — | — |
| 1916 | 19 | #1,845 | — | — |
| 1915 | 31 | #1,277 | — | — |
| 1914 | 21 | #1,417 | — | — |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,972 | — | — |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,070 | — | — |
| 1911 | 19 | #1,022 | — | — |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,868 | — | — |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,127 | — | — |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,775 | — | — |
| 1902 | 7 | #1,530 | — | — |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,482 | — | — |
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).