Lindsay
Lindsay is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 99 births. Its best rank was 36th, in 1983–1984.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 990.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19838,622 births
- Best rank
- #36first in 1983
- Since 1916
- 135,419people given the name
The story in the numbers
130,283 girls have been named Lindsay in the United States since 1916, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1983, with 8,622 births — 0.52% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 99 births in 2024, against 8,622 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1987, and the 1980s alone account for 53%. It has spent 47 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 16 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 5,136 boys have also been given it, 3.8% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lindsay | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 6 | |
| 1920s | 19 | |
| 1930s | 34 | |
| 1940s | 327 | |
| 1950s | 948 | |
| 1960s | 583 | |
| 1970s | 12,359 | |
| 1980s | 68,492 | |
| 1990s | 31,382 | |
| 2000s | 12,262 | |
| 2010s | 3,290 | |
| 2020s | 581 |
In 1983, its biggest year
Lindsay was the 36th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1983 were Jennifer, Jessica, Amanda, Ashley and Sarah. See all of 1983.
Names that rose and fell with Lindsay
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lyndsaypeak 1982
- Tarahpeak 1985
- Lindsypeak 1982
- Shandipeak 1986
- Eboniepeak 1982
- Tashinapeak 1981
- Sharikapeak 1987
- Phuongpeak 1982
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.