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Lynnette vs Lynnox

American parents have registered 15,226 Lynnettes since 1880, against 677 Lynnoxes. But in 2025 it was Lynnox that was commoner, 71 babies to 17.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Lynnette Lynnox

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 98 years and Lynnox for 12 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Lynnette Lynnox
Total US births 15,226677
Most in one year 50671
Babies in 2025 1771
Estimated living today 13,000670
Median age today 595
Peak year 19642020
Best rank 436th girls3,179th girls
Rank in 2025 6,546th3,832nd
First recorded 19022012
Girls / boys 15,226 / 0462 / 215

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 Lynnoxes are over 5. That is 54 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 Lynnox.