girls:
130.2k births since 1916
#308 (95th percentile)
boys:
5.1k births since 1880
#1671 (64th percentile)
overall:
135.3k births since 1880
#547 (93rd percentile)
The name Lindsay is the #547 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 135,316 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 92.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 92.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #308 (94.6% percentile) for all time with 130,180 births since 1916. For boys, it ranks #1,671 (63.6% percentile) for all time with 5,136 births since 1880.
Lindsay has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1916 for girls). Birth data for Lindsay is available in 140 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (129 years for boys and 92 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Lindsay has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 96.2% of all recorded births being female. Interestingly, until around 1950, the name was more popular for boys (83.0% boys from 1880 to 1949), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (97.6% girls from 1950 to 2023).
For girls, Lindsay reached its peak popularity in 1984, achieving the 95.6% percentile (ranked #36) with 4,719 births per million. The name was most common in 1983, with 4,817 births per million (ranked 95.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1986, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Lindsay ranks #860 for girls (9.2% percentile) with 53 births per million, which is 1.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Lindsay reached its peak popularity in 1960, achieving the 21.6% percentile (ranked #515) with 70 births per million. The name was most common in 1893, with 173 births per million (ranked 7.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lindsay".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Lindsay", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 60 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Lindsey" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Lindsey..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Lindsay. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 61.5% confident that Lindsay is pronounced as LIHN-zee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LIHND-zee, at 38.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like L IH1 N Z IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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