girls:
8.7k births since 1885
#1751 (69th percentile)
boys:
1.8k births since 1923
#2954 (36th percentile)
overall:
10.4k births since 1885
#2599 (66th percentile)
The name Lindy is the #2,599 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 10,438 recorded births since 1885. This represents the 66.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 66.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,751 (69.4% percentile) for all time with 8,662 births since 1885. For boys, it ranks #2,954 (35.6% percentile) for all time with 1,776 births since 1923.
Lindy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1885 (1885 for girls and 1923 for boys). Birth data for Lindy is available in 114 out of the 139 years between 1885 and 2023 (112 years for girls and 70 years for boys). 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 Lindy has been given predominantly to girls, with 83.0% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Lindy were girls.
For girls, Lindy reached its peak popularity in 1979, achieving the 36.8% percentile (ranked #497) with 180 births per million. The name was most common in 1979, with 180 births per million (ranked 36.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Lindy ranks #852 for girls (10.0% percentile) with 57 births per million, which is 31.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Lindy reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 37.0% percentile (ranked #340) with 202 births per million. The name was most common in 1927, with 202 births per million (ranked 37.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2012.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lindy".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Lindy is pronounced as LIHN-dee, which has 2 syllables.
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