girls:
157.2k births since 1924
#253 (96th percentile)
boys:
7.7k births since 1880
#1340 (71st percentile)
overall:
164.9k births since 1880
#452 (94th percentile)
The name Lindsey is the #452 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 164,935 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 94.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 94.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #253 (95.6% percentile) for all time with 157,207 births since 1924. For boys, it ranks #1,340 (70.8% percentile) for all time with 7,728 births since 1880.
Lindsey has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1924 for girls).
The name Lindsey has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 95.3% of all recorded births being female. Interestingly, until around 1972, the name was more popular for boys (78.9% boys from 1880 to 1971), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (98.5% girls from 1972 to 2023).
For girls, Lindsey reached its peak popularity in 1984, achieving the 95.7% percentile (ranked #35) with 4,994 births per million. The name was most common in 1984, with 4,994 births per million (ranked 95.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1986, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Lindsey ranks #774 for girls (18.3% percentile) with 102 births per million, which is 2.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Lindsey reached its peak popularity in 1954, achieving the 25.2% percentile (ranked #461) with 82 births per million. The name was most common in 1903, with 139 births per million (ranked 5.7% 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 "Lindsey".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Lindsey. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 55.8% confident that Lindsey is pronounced as LIHN-zee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LIHND-zee, at 32.6% 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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