Lindsey
Lindsey is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 180 births. Its best rank was 35th, in 1983–1984.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1800.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19849,006 births
- Best rank
- #35first in 1983
- Since 1924
- 165,125people given the name
The story in the numbers
157,390 girls have been named Lindsey in the United States since 1924, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1984, with 9,006 births — 0.53% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 180 births in 2024, against 9,006 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1989, and the 1980s alone account for 46%. It has spent 46 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 20 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 7,735 boys have also been given it, 4.7% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lindsey | |
|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 5 | |
| 1930s | 7 | |
| 1940s | 161 | |
| 1950s | 602 | |
| 1960s | 521 | |
| 1970s | 7,734 | |
| 1980s | 71,941 | |
| 1990s | 48,975 | |
| 2000s | 21,644 | |
| 2010s | 4,821 | |
| 2020s | 979 |
In 1984, its biggest year
Lindsey was the 35th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1984 were Jennifer, Jessica, Ashley, Amanda and Sarah. See all of 1984.
Names that rose and fell with Lindsey
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Casseypeak 1986
- Lyndseypeak 1990
- Lyndsipeak 1989
- Lynseypeak 1982
- Linseypeak 1985
- Lyndsaypeak 1982
- Thaopeak 1984
- Lindsypeak 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.