How Many People Are Named Lynwood?
people named Lynwood are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 181,030 people in the US has this name
Based on 4,168 babies named Lynwood in Social Security records from 1898 to 2022, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
114 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of LINWOOD.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Lynwood in English. Counting Lynwood and these spellings together, about 7,603 people alive in the US have the name.
Related & Similar Names
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Lynwood (99.8%) were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Lynwood alive today is about 64 years old, and 65% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 54 and 76 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Lynwood first appears in the records in 1898 and was given most often in 1935, to 114 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2022.
Babies given the name each year, 1898 to 2022
🏆 Rank History
Lynwood has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #542, in 1935.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #542 (1935) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #699 in the 1940s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Lynwood alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Lynwood were born in North Carolina than in any other state: about 384 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Lynwood was given 14.3 times as often in Virginia, 12.1 times in North Carolina and 3.4 times in Georgia.
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