Lindley
Lindley is a girl's name that peaked in 1988, when it was the 1,491st most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 7,885th. About 1,200 Lindleys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 28.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Lindley boys named Lindley
Girls and boys called Lindley
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 1,000 girls and 628 boys in all, and in 2022 the split was 30 to 0.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 12 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,628
- Estimated living today
- 1,200
- Median age today
- 28
- Peak year
- 1988
- Best rank
- 1,491st
- Rank in 2025
- 7,885th
- First recorded
- 1895
- Girls / boys
- 1,000 / 628
How old the living Lindleys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,628 babies given the name since 1895, about 1,200 are alive — 73 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1997 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Lindleys
- Lindley Miller Garrison (1864–1932)lawyer, U.S. Secretary of War
- Robert Lindley Murray (1892–1970)US tennis player
- Lindley Murray (1745–1826)American grammarian and lawyer
People named Lindley with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lindley is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lindley is most concentrated in Texas (6.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1988
The most popular girls’ names the year Lindley peaked:
Related names
Lindley against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.