Lynne
Lynne reached its high-water mark in 1960 at number 164, and has been recorded 62,415 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 13,208th. About 47,000 Lynnes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 67.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Lynne boys named Lynne
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 62,415
- Estimated living today
- 47,000
- Median age today
- 67
- Peak year
- 1960
- Best rank
- 164th
- Rank in 2025
- 13,208th
- First recorded
- 1907
- Girls / boys
- 61,957 / 458
How old the living Lynnes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 62,415 babies given the name since 1907, about 47,000 are alive — 76 in every hundred. Roughly 220 of them are children and 29,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1958 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
Origin a surname
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Lynnes
- Lynne Cheney (born 1941)Second Lady of the United States from 2001 to 2009
- Lynne Ramsay (born 1969)Scottish film director, writer, producer, and cinematographer
- Lynne Cox (born 1957)American swimmer
- Lynne Thigpen (1948–2003)American actress
- Lynne Frederick (1954–1994)British actress
- Lynne Reid Banks (1929–2024)British writer
- Lynne Carver (1916–1955)American actress
- Lynne Marie Stewart (1946–2025)American actress
People named Lynne with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lynne is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lynne is most concentrated in Massachusetts (3.4×), Rhode Island (2.9×), Hawaii (2.4×), Connecticut (2.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1960
The most popular girls’ names the year Lynne peaked:
Lynne elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland girls | Lynne | 3,527 | 24th |
| New Zealand girls | Lynne | 1,025 | 71st |
| Ireland girls | Lynne | 372 | 211th |
| France girls | Lynne | 250 | 1,962nd |
| Belgium girls | Lynne | 54 | 894th |
| England and Wales girls | Lynne | 28 | 4,049th |
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.
Lynne: rank by region
In 2020, Lynne was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Lynne | 839 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Lynne among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Lynne | — | 32 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Lynne against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.