Lindy
Lindy is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 102 births. Its best rank was 586th, in 1979.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1020.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 1979310 births
- Best rank
- #586in 1979
- Since 1885
- 10,540people given the name
The story in the numbers
8,764 girls have been named Lindy in the United States since 1885, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1979, with 310 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1980, and the 1980s alone account for 20%. It has spent 24 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Lindy is used for both sexes: 17% of its bearers are boys (1,776), most of them born around 1927.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lindy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 7 | |
| 1900s | 16 | |
| 1910s | 44 | |
| 1920s | 84 | |
| 1930s | 76 | |
| 1940s | 348 | |
| 1950s | 1,234 | |
| 1960s | 922 | |
| 1970s | 1,468 | |
| 1980s | 1,777 | |
| 1990s | 939 | |
| 2000s | 798 | |
| 2010s | 594 | |
| 2020s | 452 |
In 1979, its biggest year
Lindy was the 586th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1979 were Jennifer, Melissa, Amanda, Jessica and Amy. See all of 1979.
Names that rose and fell with Lindy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lindipeak 1983
- Jannapeak 1979
- Jacintapeak 1982
- Adriennepeak 1983
- Tomipeak 1977
- Kynapeak 1977
- Jonellepeak 1981
- Marlenapeak 1978
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.