Meaning not yet researched.
Lynne: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #144 in 1951.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #144 in 1951; #14,259 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lynne in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#14,259 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1951, at #144.
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Lynne: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 girls in 2025. Peak: #144 in 1951 · most girls in one year: 2,458 (1962).
In 2025, 6 US girls were named Lynne, making it the 14,259th most common girls’ name of the year, up 299 places from #14,558 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 6 girls named Lynne in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #144, reached in 1951. The most girls given the name in a single year was 2,458, in 1962. For comparison, it was #10,585 in 2015 and #153 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lynne in 119 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1907 with 8 babies. In all, 62,415 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 22,291 babies named Lynne.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 103 US girls were named Lynne; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 15. In 2025 that was about 1 in 267,878 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Lynn (234,778 babies since 1880), Leanne (29,632 babies since 1880), Lyn (8,781 babies since 1880) and Leone (6,637 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lynnea and Lynnae 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: Lynnea (1,762), Lynnae (1,216).
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 Lynne 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 | 6 | #14,259 | — | — |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,558 | — | — |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,780 | — | — |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,841 | — | — |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,561 | — | — |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,721 | — | — |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,898 | — | — |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,422 | — | — |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,589 | — | — |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,838 | — | — |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,585 | — | — |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,631 | — | — |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,382 | — | — |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,333 | — | — |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,775 | — | — |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,554 | — | — |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,966 | — | — |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,676 | — | — |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,551 | — | — |
| 2006 | 18 | #7,028 | — | — |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,162 | — | — |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,972 | — | — |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,888 | — | — |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,705 | — | — |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,753 | — | — |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,359 | — | — |
| 1999 | 40 | #3,225 | — | — |
| 1998 | 27 | #4,195 | — | — |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,319 | — | — |
| 1996 | 34 | #3,398 | — | — |
| 1995 | 44 | #2,764 | — | — |
| 1994 | 41 | #2,917 | — | — |
| 1993 | 42 | #2,860 | — | — |
| 1992 | 55 | #2,367 | — | — |
| 1991 | 75 | #1,887 | — | — |
| 1990 | 80 | #1,809 | — | — |
| 1989 | 87 | #1,611 | — | — |
| 1988 | 103 | #1,379 | — | — |
| 1987 | 112 | #1,263 | — | — |
| 1986 | 114 | #1,218 | — | — |
| 1985 | 118 | #1,197 | — | — |
| 1984 | 132 | #1,062 | — | — |
| 1983 | 167 | #904 | — | — |
| 1982 | 168 | #903 | — | — |
| 1981 | 175 | #876 | — | — |
| 1980 | 212 | #781 | — | — |
| 1979 | 205 | #780 | — | — |
| 1978 | 221 | #715 | — | — |
| 1977 | 226 | #694 | — | — |
| 1976 | 205 | #718 | — | — |
| 1975 | 219 | #685 | — | — |
| 1974 | 279 | #573 | — | — |
| 1973 | 351 | #497 | — | — |
| 1972 | 424 | #445 | — | — |
| 1971 | 549 | #395 | — | — |
| 1970 | 662 | #368 | — | — |
| 1969 | 811 | #317 | 8 | #3,479 |
| 1968 | 945 | #282 | 7 | #3,552 |
| 1967 | 1,068 | #256 | 5 | #4,331 |
| 1966 | 1,172 | #246 | 10 | #2,725 |
| 1965 | 1,501 | #219 | 11 | #2,563 |
| 1964 | 1,893 | #194 | 12 | #2,500 |
| 1963 | 2,201 | #174 | 6 | #3,877 |
| 1962 | 2,458 | #164 | 8 | #3,197 |
| 1961 | 2,400 | #170 | 5 | #4,432 |
| 1960 | 2,458 | #164 | 13 | #2,389 |
| 1959 | 2,234 | #172 | 10 | #2,755 |
| 1958 | 2,135 | #176 | 9 | #2,950 |
| 1957 | 2,373 | #160 | 11 | #2,585 |
| 1956 | 2,369 | #156 | 9 | #2,899 |
| 1955 | 2,349 | #155 | 8 | #3,112 |
| 1954 | 2,267 | #157 | 9 | #2,874 |
| 1953 | 2,041 | #159 | 7 | #3,302 |
| 1952 | 2,265 | #150 | 7 | #3,273 |
| 1951 | 2,221 | #144 | 18 | #1,808 |
| 1950 | 1,940 | #153 | 9 | #2,704 |
| 1949 | 1,836 | #159 | 16 | #1,915 |
| 1948 | 1,682 | #166 | 10 | #2,554 |
| 1947 | 1,971 | #149 | 14 | #2,131 |
| 1946 | 1,764 | #153 | 16 | #1,860 |
| 1945 | 1,524 | #153 | 18 | #1,611 |
| 1944 | 1,226 | #174 | 20 | #1,561 |
| 1943 | 1,311 | #178 | 18 | #1,746 |
| 1942 | 1,235 | #180 | 15 | #1,920 |
| 1941 | 944 | #200 | 21 | #1,512 |
| 1940 | 742 | #226 | 14 | #1,953 |
| 1939 | 688 | #236 | 8 | #2,731 |
| 1938 | 598 | #258 | 9 | #2,580 |
| 1937 | 403 | #309 | 13 | #2,055 |
| 1936 | 286 | #376 | 6 | #3,394 |
| 1935 | 171 | #483 | — | — |
| 1934 | 159 | #511 | — | — |
| 1933 | 90 | #685 | — | — |
| 1932 | 67 | #851 | 10 | #2,566 |
| 1931 | 55 | #938 | 5 | #4,118 |
| 1930 | 35 | #1,282 | — | — |
| 1929 | 24 | #1,625 | — | — |
| 1928 | 24 | #1,714 | 6 | #3,976 |
| 1927 | 36 | #1,346 | — | — |
| 1926 | 34 | #1,377 | 9 | #3,049 |
| 1925 | 36 | #1,334 | 5 | #4,639 |
| 1924 | 28 | #1,632 | — | — |
| 1923 | 34 | #1,371 | 8 | #3,347 |
| 1922 | 20 | #1,997 | 6 | #4,128 |
| 1921 | 19 | #2,086 | 5 | #4,726 |
| 1920 | 32 | #1,429 | — | — |
| 1919 | 27 | #1,547 | 8 | #3,278 |
| 1918 | 28 | #1,519 | — | — |
| 1917 | 25 | #1,535 | — | — |
| 1916 | 21 | #1,724 | 6 | #3,733 |
| 1915 | 20 | #1,716 | — | — |
| 1914 | 19 | #1,520 | 5 | #3,565 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,973 | — | — |
| 1912 | 9 | #2,071 | 5 | #2,767 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,362 | — | — |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,309 | — | — |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,549 | — | — |
| 1908 | 9 | #1,499 | — | — |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,587 | — | — |
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).