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How popular is “Lyndsay” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lyndsay” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Lyndsay” 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 “Lyndsay” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Lyndsay” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lyndsay” 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
1973 5 0.000001657 5 100%
1974 11 0.000003618 11 100%
1975 24 0.000007949 24 100%
1976 90 0.000029661 90 100%
1977 121 0.000038092 121 100%
1978 119 0.000037494 119 100%
1979 162 0.000048693 162 100%
1980 208 0.000060386 208 100%
1981 275 0.000079494 275 100%
1982 403 0.000114882 403 100%
1983 393 0.000113474 393 100%
1984 362 0.000103762 362 100%
1985 392 0.000109831 392 100%
1986 349 0.000098114 349 100%
1987 337 0.000093465 337 100%
1988 333 0.000090121 333 100%
1989 306 0.000079595 306 100%
1990 294 0.000074384 294 100%
1991 261 0.000067004 261 100%
1992 265 0.000068988 265 100%
1993 212 0.000056229 212 100%
1994 204 0.000054873 204 100%
1995 163 0.000044509 163 100%
1996 136 0.000037289 136 100%
1997 145 0.000039992 145 100%
1998 125 0.000033984 125 100%
1999 118 0.000031945 118 100%
2000 128 0.000033863 128 100%
2001 92 0.000024577 92 100%
2002 72 0.00001926 72 100%
2003 75 0.000019725 75 100%
2004 83 0.000021723 83 100%
2005 86 0.000022368 86 100%
2006 62 0.000015672 62 100%
2007 58 0.000014508 58 100%
2008 44 0.000011194 44 100%
2009 42 0.000010994 42 100%
2010 31 0.000008388 31 100%
2011 21 0.000005741 21 100%
2012 27 0.000007382 27 100%
2013 8 0.000002194 8 100%
2014 15 0.000004047 15 100%
2015 11 0.000002972 11 100%
2016 11 0.000002998 11 100%
2017 13 0.000003635 13 100%
2019 6 0.000001729 6 100%
2020 8 0.000002395 8 100%
2022 10 0.000002956 10 100%

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