Lynleigh
Feminine
Lynleigh joins Lyn to the -leigh ending, and both halves come from words about water and woodland in two Celtic and Germanic languages.
How old is the name Lynleigh?
Lynleigh first appears in US birth records in 2005 — 20 years ago. The typical Lynleigh is a kid of about 7 — this name's wave is very recent. About 700 people named Lynleigh are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lynleigh most popular?
Lynleigh peaked in 2018, reaching #2098 nationally. Today it ranks #4460, 2,362 places below that high. See the whole 2018 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Lynleigh
Ours, offered as ours. Both halves of this name are landscape words that have entirely stopped being landscape words: llyn is a lake in Welsh and leah is a clearing in Old English, and both are now purely decorative suffixes in American naming, attachable to anything. That is the ordinary fate of place-name elements — they become sounds. Lynleigh puts two of them together and means, in the strict sense, lake clearing.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source is established for the compound. Lyn is from Welsh llyn, a lake, by way of a surname. The -leigh ending is Old English leah, a woodland clearing. Neither carries an inherited meaning in this construction.
Pronouncing Lynleigh
LIN-lee
Two syllables, first stressed. There is little variation.
Nicknames for Lynleigh
Moderate
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
- 2005
- Most girls named
- 201891 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2098reached in 2018
- Change vs 2024
- −8.8%31 in 2025, from 34
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.
Lynleigh in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Llyn in Welsh — related form
- Lynlee in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Alabama, Tennessee, Texas.
Lynleighs among us
people named Lynleigh are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 51,847 born in 2025 was named Lynleigh
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Lynleigh
- #4460
- Lynleigh on the 2025 chart
- #900
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Lynleigh went to 31 girls in 2025, but Lynnleigh is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 60, which makes it the 900th most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,560 places above the chart.
- Lynleigh31
- Lynnleigh29
About 1 girl in 26,788 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 51,847 for Lynleigh 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 Julieanne test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Lynleigh's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Julieanne climbed just as high around 1987, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Julieanne's path sketches the road Lynleigh is walking now.
Lynleigh 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 Lynleigh is headed
Lynleigh is easing off slowly — about 23% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues. 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.
Lynleigh beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Lynleigh in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Lyn and Leigh are both complete names in their own right.
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- Warm and immediately friendly in sound.
- Eight letters for two syllables is a great deal for early handwriting.
- Lynleigh, Lynlee and Linley are all in use and none is dominant.
- There is no documented meaning for the compound.
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Frequently asked
- How many Lynleighs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Lynleigh are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Lynleigh?
- Lynleigh is the most-used spelling in US records — 31 of the 60 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Lynnleigh.
- How popular is the name Lynleigh in 2025?
- Lynleigh ranks #4460 among US girl names in 2025, with 31 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Lynleigh?
- About 1 in every 51,847 US girls born in 2025 was named Lynleigh — 31 in all.
- Will my child share the name Lynleigh with classmates?
- Lynleigh will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Lynleigh
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