girls:
6.7k births since 1973
#2006 (65th percentile)
overall:
6.7k births since 1973
#3282 (58th percentile)
The name Lyndsay is the #3,282 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,716 recorded births since 1973. This represents the 57.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 57.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,006 (64.9% percentile) for all time with 6,716 births since 1973.
Lyndsay first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1973 (first recorded for girls in 1973). Birth data for Lyndsay is available in 48 out of the 50 years between 1973 and 2022. 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.
For girls, Lyndsay reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 44.1% percentile (ranked #434) with 220 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 222 births per million (ranked 42.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lyndsay".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Lyndsay. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 38.1% confident that Lyndsay is pronounced as LIHN-zee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LIHND-say, at 23.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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