How Many People Are Named Lyndsay?
people named Lyndsay are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 52,292 people in the US has this name
Based on 6,716 babies named Lyndsay in Social Security records from 1973 to 2022, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
403 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of LINDSAY.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Lyndsay in English. Counting Lyndsay and these spellings together, about 32,963 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Lyndsay in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Lyndsay alive today is about 36 years old, and 78% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 31 and 42 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Lyndsay first appears in the records in 1973 and was given most often in 1982, to 403 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2022.
Babies given the name each year, 1973 to 2022
🏆 Rank History
Lyndsay has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #495, in 1983.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #495 (1983) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #584 in the 1980s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Lyndsay alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Lyndsay were born in California than in any other state: about 483 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Lyndsay was given 2.3 times as often in Indiana, 2 times in Massachusetts and 2 times in Michigan.
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