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Lynnette vs Lynnlee

American parents have registered 15,226 Lynnettes since 1880, against 1,107 Lynnlees. But in 2025 it was Lynnlee that was commoner, 89 babies to 17.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lynnette against Lynnlee, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lynnette Lynnlee

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 110 years in which either name was published, Lynnette for 95 years and Lynnlee for 15 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Lynnette Lynnlee
Total US births 15,2261,107
Most in one year 50689
Babies in 2025 1789
Estimated living today 13,0001,100
Median age today 597
Peak year 19642025
Best rank 436th girls2,099th girls
Rank in 2025 6,546th2,099th
First recorded 19021988
Girls / boys 15,226 / 01,107 / 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 Lynnettes alive today are over 59; half the Lynnlees are over 7. That is 52 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: Lynnette and Lynnlee.