Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Lindsey” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lindsey” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Lindsey” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Lindsey” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Lindsey” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Lindsey” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Lindsey” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lindsey” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 11 0.000054595 11 -100%
1881 7 0.000036328 7 -100%
1882 8 0.000036112 8 -100%
1883 12 0.000055313 12 -100%
1884 9 0.000036967 9 -100%
1885 7 0.000029063 7 -100%
1886 16 0.000062667 16 -100%
1887 10 0.000040422 10 -100%
1888 13 0.000043409 13 -100%
1889 16 0.000055374 16 -100%
1890 12 0.000039814 12 -100%
1891 12 0.00004186 12 -100%
1892 11 0.000032897 11 -100%
1893 7 0.000021524 7 -100%
1894 7 0.000020668 7 -100%
1895 11 0.000031337 11 -100%
1896 13 0.000036365 13 -100%
1897 8 0.000023058 8 -100%
1898 11 0.000028837 11 -100%
1899 13 0.000038322 13 -100%
1900 19 0.000042198 19 -100%
1901 12 0.000034701 12 -100%
1902 13 0.000033615 13 -100%
1903 18 0.000047219 18 -100%
1904 10 0.000024784 10 -100%
1905 14 0.000033025 14 -100%
1906 18 0.000042012 18 -100%
1907 15 0.000032231 15 -100%
1908 14 0.00002865 14 -100%
1909 12 0.000023473 12 -100%
1910 23 0.000038936 23 -100%
1911 32 0.000049668 32 -100%
1912 39 0.000039471 39 -100%
1913 42 0.000036936 42 -100%
1914 56 0.000039538 56 -100%
1915 57 0.000031106 57 -100%
1916 61 0.000031534 61 -100%
1917 69 0.000034384 69 -100%
1918 52 0.000023951 52 -100%
1919 62 0.00002938 62 -100%
1920 57 0.000025192 57 -100%
1921 58 0.000024845 58 -100%
1922 72 0.000031453 72 -100%
1923 70 0.000030402 70 -100%
1924 60 0.000025193 5 55 -83%
1925 52 0.000022286 52 -100%
1926 55 0.000023956 55 -100%
1927 56 0.000024145 56 -100%
1928 60 0.000026538 60 -100%
1929 56 0.000025546 56 -100%
1930 73 0.000032834 73 -100%
1931 44 0.000020909 44 -100%
1932 73 0.000034576 73 -100%
1933 54 0.000027007 54 -100%
1934 53 0.00002552 53 -100%
1935 59 0.000028231 59 -100%
1936 51 0.000024548 51 -100%
1937 67 0.000031446 7 60 -79%
1938 56 0.00002531 56 -100%
1939 60 0.00002723 60 -100%
1940 53 0.000023017 5 48 -81%
1941 84 0.000034477 8 76 -81%
1942 71 0.00002599 7 64 -80%
1943 74 0.000026217 74 -100%
1944 64 0.000023791 6 58 -81%
1945 80 0.000030156 11 69 -73%
1946 111 0.000034738 20 91 -64%
1947 123 0.000034145 33 90 -46%
1948 121 0.000035047 24 97 -60%
1949 138 0.000039601 47 91 -32%
1950 157 0.000044814 51 106 -35%
1951 180 0.000048863 51 129 -43%
1952 199 0.000052396 66 133 -34%
1953 209 0.000054234 53 156 -49%
1954 240 0.000060291 71 169 -41%
1955 197 0.000049065 43 154 -56%
1956 198 0.000048023 66 132 -33%
1957 233 0.000055448 84 149 -28%
1958 211 0.000051041 65 146 -38%
1959 190 0.000045695 52 138 -45%
1960 182 0.000043815 41 141 -55%
1961 215 0.000051904 70 145 -35%
1962 183 0.000045349 45 138 -51%
1963 181 0.000045728 57 124 -37%
1964 144 0.000037041 47 97 -35%
1965 134 0.000036961 42 92 -37%
1966 126 0.000036252 41 85 -35%
1967 142 0.000041827 54 88 -24%
1968 130 0.00003848 56 74 -14%
1969 133 0.00003827 68 65 2%
1970 147 0.00004076 70 77 -5%
1971 125 0.000036418 69 56 10%
1972 137 0.000043589 75 62 9%
1973 171 0.000056681 101 70 18%
1974 282 0.000092763 234 48 66%
1975 408 0.000135126 361 47 77%
1976 945 0.000311439 873 72 85%
1977 1488 0.000468441 1381 107 86%
1978 1902 0.000599268 1812 90 91%
1979 2837 0.00085272 2758 79 94%
1980 3474 0.001008563 3386 88 95%
1981 4977 0.001438699 4863 114 95%
1982 8099 0.002308748 7961 138 97%
1983 8806 0.002542633 8679 127 97%
1984 9120 0.002614113 9006 114 98%
1985 8584 0.002405081 8468 116 97%
1986 8159 0.002293737 8051 108 97%
1987 7552 0.002094511 7457 95 97%
1988 7087 0.001917975 7001 86 98%
1989 7166 0.001863987 7069 97 97%
1990 6852 0.001733596 6782 70 98%
1991 6517 0.001673057 6459 58 98%
1992 5942 0.001546883 5894 48 98%
1993 5897 0.001564075 5845 52 98%
1994 5028 0.001352466 4988 40 98%
1995 4427 0.001208851 4377 50 98%
1996 4141 0.001135393 4112 29 99%
1997 3667 0.001011377 3636 31 98%
1998 3500 0.000951551 3465 35 98%
1999 3431 0.000928837 3417 14 99%
2000 3228 0.00085399 3211 17 99%
2001 3072 0.000820647 3050 22 99%
2002 2836 0.000758635 2816 20 99%
2003 2558 0.000672747 2540 18 99%
2004 2285 0.000598023 2255 30 97%
2005 2110 0.000548787 2094 16 98%
2006 1900 0.00048026 1886 14 99%
2007 1564 0.000391227 1555 9 99%
2008 1236 0.000314451 1227 9 99%
2009 1022 0.000267527 1010 12 98%
2010 812 0.000219712 803 9 98%
2011 653 0.000178523 647 6 98%
2012 589 0.000161045 579 10 97%
2013 514 0.000140989 504 10 96%
2014 539 0.000145425 534 5 98%
2015 487 0.000131589 476 11 95%
2016 377 0.000102761 364 13 93%
2017 321 0.00008976 315 6 96%
2018 334 0.000094997 323 11 93%
2019 276 0.000079518 276 100%
2020 255 0.000076334 244 11 91%
2021 201 0.000059328 195 6 94%
2022 181 0.000053501 181 100%
2023 179 0.000054059 179 100%
2024 187 0.000056181 180 7 93%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Lindsey:

  1. Lindsae
  2. Lindsay
  3. Lindse
  4. Lindsea
  5. Lindsee
  6. Lindsey (this page)
  7. Lindsi
  8. Lindsie
  9. Lindsley
  10. Lindsy
  11. Lindwood