How Many People Are Named Lynsey?
people named Lynsey are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 71,131 people in the US has this name
Based on 4,929 babies named Lynsey in Social Security records from 1966 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
254 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 Lynsey in English. Counting Lynsey and these spellings together, about 32,963 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Lynsey in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Lynsey alive today is about 34 years old, and 71% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 28 and 41 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Lynsey first appears in the records in 1966 and was given most often in 1982, to 254 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.
Babies given the name each year, 1966 to 2024
🏆 Rank History
Lynsey has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #693, in 1982.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #693 (1982) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #811 in the 1980s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Lynsey alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Lynsey were born in California than in any other state: about 348 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Lynsey was given about 1.9 times as often in Indiana, Michigan and Ohio.
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