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Lyndsey vs Lynzee

American parents have registered 14,420 Lyndseys since 1880, against 836 Lynzees. Lyndsey is still ahead, with 14 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lyndsey against Lynzee, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lyndsey Lynzee

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

Lyndsey has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1964 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2024, when Lyndsey had 14 and Lynzee had 6.

Side by side

  Lyndsey Lynzee
Total US births 14,420836
Most in one year 68740
Babies in 2025 14under 5
Estimated living today 14,000820
Median age today 3428
Peak year 19901993
Best rank 384th girls2,938th girls
Rank in 2025 7,491stunranked
First recorded 19641977
Girls / boys 14,388 / 32836 / 0

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 Lyndseys alive today are over 34; half the Lynzees are over 28. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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