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Linzy

The girl's name Linzy has been in the national records since 1883, with 1,539 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 10,917th. About 1,200 Linzys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 31.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Linzy boys named Linzy

Girls and boys called Linzy

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 974 girls and 565 boys in all, and in 2008 the split was 28 to 0.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 20 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
1,539
Estimated living today
1,200
Median age today
31
Peak year
1990
Best rank
2,640th
Rank in 2025
10,917th
First recorded
1883
Girls / boys
974 / 565

How old the living Linzys are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,539 babies given the name since 1883, about 1,200 are alive — 76 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1994 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.

Where the name comes from

Fanciful 20th-century respelling of Lindsey or Lindsay.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Where Linzy is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Linzy is most concentrated in California (6.3×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1990

The most popular girls’ names the year Linzy peaked:

All the names of 1990

Linzy elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France girls Linzy 30 7,010th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Related names

Linzy 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.