Lindy
Feminine
Lindy is given to both — 8,896 girls and 1,776 boys since 1880. See Lindy as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Short forms almost never come back. A full name can go out of fashion, drop away for eighty years and return sounding fresh, but a diminutive usually dates its bearer permanently and stays dated. This one has managed it anyway, appearing in the record from the eighteen-eighties and rising again a century later.
How old is the name Lindy?
Lindy first appears in US birth records in 1885 — 140 years ago. The typical Lindy alive today was born around 1981, making them about 44 years old. About 8,100 people named Lindy are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lindy most popular?
Lindy peaked in 1979, reaching #586 nationally. Today it ranks #1592, 1,006 places below that high. See the whole 1979 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Linda to Lindy
The story of Lindy
The only part of this name that is not borrowed is the y at the end. The front comes from somewhere: a Germanic element about a lime tree or a shield, or an English county, or a Spanish adjective, depending on which parent a family had. The ending is English, one of the two affectionate suffixes the language uses freely, and it is doing the whole work of turning whatever came before it into a name a child answers to. That is the ordinary structure of a diminutive and it is worth noticing how little of the result is actually inherited.
Meaningnot established
Not established
Several parents produce it — a name whose own Germanic element is disputed, an English place name, and others — and the record does not choose between them. No reading can be given with confidence.
How the name formed
- Linda
- Lindy
Pronouncing Lindy
LIN-dee
Two syllables with the stress at the front. Nothing about the spelling is ambiguous and nobody meeting it hesitates.
Nicknames for Lindy
Limited
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1885
- Most girls named
- 1979310 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #586reached in 1979
- Change vs 2023
- +31.0%131 in 2025, from 100
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Lindy in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Minnesota, California.
Lindys among us
people named Lindy are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 12,269 born in 2025 was named Lindy
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Lindy
- #1592
- Lindy on the 2025 chart
- #745
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Lindy went to 131 girls in 2025, but Lyndi, Lyndy and Lynndi and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 5 spellings went to 216, which makes it the 745th most-given girls’ name of the year — 847 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 7,441 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 12,269 for Lindy itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Gaye test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Lindy's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Gaye climbed just as high around 1952, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Gaye's path sketches the road Lindy is walking now.
Lindy is on its second act. Revived names age gently: the generation that wore them first is far enough away that the name feels classic rather than dated.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Lindy is headed
Lindy looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 21% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Lindy beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Lindy in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It is short, warm and completely easy to say on first hearing.
- It is returning, which means it reads as neither dated nor invented.
- The spelling can only be read one way.
- It reads as a short form to many people even when it is the legal name.
- No meaning can be given, because the parent cannot be identified.
- The record holds a few boys as well, and the boy is much the smaller side.
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Frequently asked
- How many Lindys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 8,100 people named Lindy are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Lindy?
- Lindy is the most-used spelling in US records — 131 of the 216 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Lyndi, Lyndy, Lynndi and Lindi.
- How popular is the name Lindy in 2025?
- Lindy ranks #1592 among US girl names in 2025, with 131 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Lindy?
- About 1 in every 12,269 US girls born in 2025 was named Lindy — 131 in all.
- Will my child share the name Lindy with classmates?
- Lindy will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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