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Lyndal vs Lynn

American parents have registered 234,778 Lynns since 1880, against 712 Lyndals. Lynn is still ahead, with 84 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lyndal against Lynn, 1880 to 2025 0 2.5k 5k 7.5k 10k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lyndal Lynn

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Lynn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1930, when Lyndal had 19 and Lynn had 615.

Side by side

  Lyndal Lynn
Total US births 712234,778
Most in one year 298,989
Babies in 2025 under 584
Estimated living today 330172,000
Median age today 7466
Peak year 19411956
Best rank 1,821st boys58th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked2,542nd
First recorded 19131880
Girls / boys 313 / 399182,387 / 52,391

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Lyndals alive today are over 74; half the Lynns are over 66. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Lyndal and Lynn.