girls:
61.9k births since 1907
#510 (91st percentile)
boys:
458 births since 1912
#4128 (10th percentile)
overall:
62.4k births since 1907
#940 (88th percentile)
The name Lynne is the #940 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 62,404 recorded births since 1907. This represents the 87.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 87.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #510 (91.1% percentile) for all time with 61,946 births since 1907. For boys, it ranks #4,128 (9.9% percentile) for all time with 458 births since 1912.
Lynne first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1907 (1907 for girls and 1912 for boys).
The name Lynne has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.3% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Lynne reached its peak popularity in 1951, achieving the 79.7% percentile (ranked #143) with 1,202 births per million. The name was most common in 1962, with 1,213 births per million (ranked 79.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Lynne ranks #941 for girls (0.6% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 0.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Lynne reached its peak popularity in 1941, achieving the 3.0% percentile (ranked #510) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 1941, with 17 births per million (ranked 3.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1969.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lynne".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Lynne. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Lynne is pronounced as lihn, which has 1 syllables.
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