How popular is the name Lyndsay?

Lyndsay ranks 1,758th among girls' names in US records, with 6,762 births since 1973. Over the past decade it accounts for 82.

Is Lyndsay a unisex name?

No. Lyndsay is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1982, when 409 children were given the name. It has been in use for 50 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Lyndse, Lindse. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Girl name#1,758 of girl names

Pronounced L IH1 N D S EY1 (ARPABET)

Lyndsay is a girls' name, and first appears in 1973. It has been given to 6,762 children — the 1,758th most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 82 births across the past decade, against a peak of 409 in a single year. That peak was in 1982.

Two other spellings are counted in that total — Lyndse and Lindse — because they are pronounced identically.

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These spellings sound identical to Lyndsay and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Lyndsay?: Lyndsay ranks 1,758th among girls' names in US records, with 6,762 births since 1973. Over the past decade it accounts for 82.
Is Lyndsay a unisex name?: No. Lyndsay is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Lyndsay most popular?: 1982, when 409 children were given the name. It has been in use for 50 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Lyndsay spelled?: Lyndse, Lindse. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.