Lyndal vs Lynnette

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Lyndal Lynnette

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

Of the 113 years in which either name was published, Lynnette for 104 years and Lyndal for 9 years. The lead changed hands 14 times.

• 1924–2025 Lynnette ahead, apart from 2 short spells

12 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

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 Lynnettes are over 59. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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