How Many People Are Named Lyndsey?

14,079

people named Lyndsey are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 24,276 people in the US has this name

Based on 14,420 babies named Lyndsey in Social Security records from 1964 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,984

💎 Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#1,083

See the top 100

Peak Year

1990

687 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English (Modern)
Pronunciation: LIN-zee
Gender: Primarily Female

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 Lyndsey in English. Counting Lyndsey and these spellings together, about 32,963 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
99.8%
Male
0.2%

Almost all of the babies given the name Lyndsey (99.8%) were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Lyndsey alive today is about 33 years old, and 67% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 27 and 40 in 2025.

Under 30 4,612
32.8%
30 to 59 9,463
67.2%
60 and over 4
0%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Lyndsey first appears in the records in 1964 and was given most often in 1990, to 687 babies. In 2025, 14 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1964 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Lyndsey has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #343, in 1983. In 2025 it ranked #7,721.

Girls
Rank in 2025#7,721
Best rank#343 (1983)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#390 in the 1980s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Lyndsey alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Lyndsey were born in Texas than in any other state: about 1,082 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Lyndsey was given 2 times as often in Kentucky, 1.8 times in Arkansas and 1.7 times in Indiana.

Texas 1,082
California 1,016
Ohio 905
Michigan 595
Florida 583
New York 579
Pennsylvania 544
Illinois 521
Indiana 456
Georgia 407
Tennessee 372
North Carolina 336
Kentucky 327
Massachusetts 321
Missouri 313
Virginia 279
New Jersey 269
Washington 268
Oklahoma 244
Wisconsin 233
Minnesota 222
Louisiana 219
Colorado 206
Alabama 186
Arkansas 169
Utah 154
Arizona 132
Iowa 127
South Carolina 119
Kansas 100
Nebraska 88
Oregon 88
Maryland 87
West Virginia 80
Connecticut 80
Mississippi 61
New Hampshire 38
South Dakota 36
Nevada 32
Rhode Island 23
Idaho 22
Hawaii 16
North Dakota 14
New Mexico 13
Maine 12
Montana 11
Vermont 5
Wyoming 5

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