Lynsey
Lynsey reached its high-water mark in 1982 at number 693, and has been recorded 4,929 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 4,800 Lynseys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 35.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Lynsey
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,929
- Estimated living today
- 4,800
- Median age today
- 35
- Peak year
- 1982
- Best rank
- 693rd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1966
How old the living Lynseys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,929 babies given the name since 1966, about 4,800 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1990 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 Lynseys
- Lynsey de Paul (1948–2014)English singer-songwriter
- Lynsey Sharp (born 1990)Scottish middle-distance runner
- Lynsey Addario (born 1973)American photojournalist
People named Lynsey with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lynsey is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lynsey is most concentrated in Michigan (1.9×), Colorado (1.8×), Indiana (1.8×), Ohio (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1982
The most popular girls’ names the year Lynsey peaked:
Lynsey elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotland girls | Lynsey | 4,354 | 15th |
| Ireland girls | Lynsey | 430 | 119th |
| England and Wales girls | Lynsey | 107 | 753rd |
| France girls | Lynsey | 30 | 7,011th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Lynsey | 22 | 154th |
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
Lynsey 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.