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Lyndon

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Lyndon is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 94 births. Its best rank was 347th, in 1964.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
940.01% of boys
Peak year
1964514 births
Best rank
#347in 1964
Since 1904
10,039people given the name
Babies named Lyndon, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

9,640 boys have been named Lyndon in the United States since 1904, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1964, with 514 births.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1970, and the 1960s alone account for 21%. It has spent 36 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 399 girls have also been given it, 4.0% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadeboys named Lyndon
1900s24
1910s243
1920s348
1930s338
1940s716
1950s1,107
1960s2,034
1970s473
1980s812
1990s867
2000s896
2010s1,305
2020s477

In 1964, its biggest year

Lyndon was the 347th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1964 were Michael, John, David, James and Robert. See all of 1964.

Names that rose and fell with Lyndon

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.