Lindsey

At the 2020 census, 60,657 Americans bore the surname Lindsey — 548th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 4,928.

By the numbers

People: 60,657
Rank: 548th
How common: 1 in 4,928
Per 100,000: 20.3

Where the name comes from

Origin Old English

From Old English Lindesege, ultimately from cel-bry-pro *llɨnn (“pool”), from Proto-Celtic *lindos (“lake, liquid”) (as in Lincoln) +.

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

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Lindsey described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 64.7%
Black, not Hispanic 25.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.2%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Lindsey

Steven Lindsey (born 1960)American astronaut
Hillary Lindsey (born 1976)American singer-songwriter
George Lindsey (1928–2012)American actor, television personality, writer, narrator, speaker
Lori Lindsey (born 1980)American soccer player
Johanna Lindsey (1952–2019)American writer
Courtney Lindsey (born 1998)American athlete
Hal Lindsey (1929–2024)American evangelist and Christian writer

People named Lindsey with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Lindsey

Also a first name

Lindsey has been given to 165,286 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1984. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.