Lynnlee
Feminine · “lake and clearing”
Lynnlee joins Lynn to Lee — a Welsh lake and an Old English clearing, two real place words welded together in America.
How old is the name Lynnlee?
Lynnlee first appears in US birth records in 1988 — 37 years ago. The typical Lynnlee is a kid of about 7 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,100 people named Lynnlee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lynnlee most popular?
Lynnlee peaked in 2025, reaching #2099 nationally. Today it ranks #2099, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
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Where it comes from
From llyn leah to Lynnlee
The story of Lynnlee
Llyn and leah are among the commonest elements in British place names — the lake and the clearing — and both became given names in their own right in twentieth-century America. Families joined them from the 2000s, and Lynnlee appears in the registers in current use.
Meaning
lake and clearing
A compound of Lynn, from the Welsh llyn, 'lake', and Lee, from the Old English leah, 'wood' or 'clearing'. Both elements are genuine and settled in their own languages. The joining is modern American with no older precedent.
How the name formed
- llyn leah
- Lynn Lee
- Lynnlee
Related forms: Lynlee · Lynleigh
Pronouncing Lynnlee
LIN-lee
Two syllables, stress on the first. All the spellings of the sound are said identically.
Nicknames for Lynnlee
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
- 1988
- Most girls named
- 202589 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2099reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +9.9%89 in 2025, from 81
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.
Lynnlee in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Lynlee in English — spelling variant
- Lynleigh in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Tennessee, Indiana.
Lynnlees among us
people named Lynnlee are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 18,059 born in 2025 was named Lynnlee
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Lynnlee
- #2099
- Lynnlee on the 2025 chart
- #743
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Lynnlee went to 89 girls in 2025, but Lynlee and Linlee are the same name said out loud. Together the 3 spellings went to 218, which makes it the 743rd most-given girls’ name of the year — 1,356 places above the chart.
- Lynlee116
- Lynnlee89
- Linlee13
About 1 girl in 7,373 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 18,059 for Lynnlee 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. Lynnlee'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 Lynnlee is walking now.
Lynnlee 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 Lynnlee is headed
Lynnlee should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High 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.
Lynnlee beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Lynnlee in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Both elements are genuine place words with settled meanings.
- Lynn and Lee are two short forms, both with large records.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- The compound is modern rather than inherited.
- At least three spellings of the sound are in circulation.
- It will need spelling out every time.
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Frequently asked
- How many Lynnlees are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Lynnlee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Lynnlee?
- Lynnlee is one of 3 recorded spellings. Lynlee is the more common one — 116 births in 2025 against 89 for Lynnlee.
- How popular is the name Lynnlee in 2025?
- Lynnlee ranks #2099 among US girl names in 2025, with 89 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Lynnlee?
- About 1 in every 18,059 US girls born in 2025 was named Lynnlee — 89 in all.
- Will my child share the name Lynnlee with classmates?
- Lynnlee will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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