girls:
182.3k births since 1880
#212 (96th percentile)
boys:
52.4k births since 1880
#483 (89th percentile)
overall:
234.6k births since 1880
#340 (96th percentile)
The name Lynn is the #340 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 234,611 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 95.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 95.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #212 (96.3% percentile) for all time with 182,253 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #483 (89.5% percentile) for all time with 52,358 births since 1880.
Lynn has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
The name Lynn has been given predominantly to girls, with 77.7% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 78.5% of babies named Lynn were girls. Interestingly, until around 1942, the name was more popular for boys (67.4% boys from 1880 to 1941), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (82.7% girls from 1942 to 2023).
For girls, Lynn reached its peak popularity in 1956, achieving the 92.4% percentile (ranked #58) with 3,756 births per million. The name was most common in 1956, with 3,756 births per million (ranked 92.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Lynn ranks #901 for girls (4.9% percentile) with 29 births per million, which is 0.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Lynn reached its peak popularity in 1951, achieving the 75.1% percentile (ranked #152) with 874 births per million. The name was most common in 1941, with 1,077 births per million (ranked 73.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Lynn ranks #902 for boys (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 0.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lynn".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Lynn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Lynn is pronounced as lihn, which has 1 syllables.
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