Lyndy
Feminine
Lyndy entered the US charts in 1950, peaked at #4162 in 1981, ranks #4878 in 2025 — given to only a few children a year.
How old is the name Lyndy?
Lyndy first appears in US birth records in 1950 — 75 years ago. The typical Lyndy alive today was born around 1992, making them about 33 years old. About 500 people named Lyndy are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lyndy most popular?
Lyndy peaked in 1981, reaching #4162 nationally. Today it ranks #4878, 716 places below that high. See the whole 1981 chart.
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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
- 1950
- Most girls named
- 202432 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #4162reached in 1981
- Change vs 2024
- −15.6%27 in 2025, from 32
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.
Lyndys among us
people named Lyndy are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 59,528 born in 2025 was named Lyndy
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Lyndy
- #4878
- Lyndy on the 2025 chart
- #745
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Lyndy went to 27 girls in 2025, but Lindy, Lyndi 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 — 4,133 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 7,441 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 59,528 for Lyndy 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 Dareen test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Lyndy's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Dareen climbed just as high around 1956, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Dareen's path sketches the road Lyndy is walking now.
Lyndy sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Lyndy is headed
Lyndy is on a steep climb — if the curve holds, 2030 could see around 63% more babies given the name than today. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low 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.
Lyndy beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Lyndy in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
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Frequently asked
- How many Lyndys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Lyndy are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Lyndy?
- Lyndy is one of 5 recorded spellings. Lindy is the more common one — 131 births in 2025 against 27 for Lyndy.
- How popular is the name Lyndy in 2025?
- Lyndy ranks #4878 among US girl names in 2025, with 27 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Lyndy?
- About 1 in every 59,528 US girls born in 2025 was named Lyndy — 27 in all.
- Will my child share the name Lyndy with classmates?
- Lyndy will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Lyndy
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