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Linsey

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Linsey is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. Its best rank was 631st, in 1985.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
60.00% of girls
Peak year
1985296 births
Best rank
#631in 1985
Since 1948
5,358people given the name
Babies named Linsey, by year of birthgirls
012525037550018801900192019401960198020002020

The story in the numbers

5,118 girls have been named Linsey in the United States since 1948, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1985, with 296 births.

The name has all but left use: 6 births in 2024, against 296 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1989, and the 1980s alone account for 42%. It has spent 11 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 240 boys have also been given it, 4.5% of the total.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadegirls named Linsey
1940s5
1950s15
1960s8
1970s423
1980s2,159
1990s1,444
2000s815
2010s213
2020s36

In 1985, its biggest year

Linsey was the 631st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1985 were Jessica, Ashley, Jennifer, Amanda and Sarah. See all of 1985.

Names that rose and fell with Linsey

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.