girls:
43.3k births since 1897
#643 (89th percentile)
boys:
53 births since 1959
#4533 (1st percentile)
overall:
43.3k births since 1897
#1181 (85th percentile)
The name Lynette is the #1,181 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 43,315 recorded births since 1897. This represents the 84.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 84.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #643 (88.8% percentile) for all time with 43,262 births since 1897. For boys, it ranks #4,533 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 53 births since 1959.
Lynette first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1897 (1897 for girls and 1959 for boys). Birth data for Lynette is available in 118 out of the 127 years between 1897 and 2023 (118 years for girls and 9 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 Lynette has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Lynette reached its peak popularity in 1965, achieving the 70.9% percentile (ranked #221) with 773 births per million. The name was most common in 1965, with 773 births per million (ranked 70.9% percentile). Despite a low point in 2002, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Lynette ranks #884 for girls (6.7% percentile) with 39 births per million, which is 5.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Lynette reached its peak popularity in 1971, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #665) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1971, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1976.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lynette".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Lynette. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 61.8% confident that Lynette is pronounced as lih-NEHT, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is lai-NEHT, at 16.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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