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How popular is “Lyndsey” in the USA?

Number of people named “Lyndsey” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Lyndsey” by birth year

This chart shows how “Lyndsey” 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
1964 5 0.000001286 5 100%
1966 6 0.000001726 6 100%
1969 5 0.000001439 5 100%
1972 9 0.000002864 9 100%
1973 8 0.000002652 8 100%
1974 19 0.00000625 19 100%
1975 34 0.000011261 34 100%
1976 50 0.000016478 50 100%
1977 104 0.00003274 104 100%
1978 174 0.000054823 174 100%
1979 239 0.000071836 239 100%
1980 264 0.000076644 264 100%
1981 428 0.000123722 423 5 98%
1982 634 0.000180732 634 100%
1983 675 0.000194899 670 5 99%
1984 663 0.000190039 657 6 98%
1985 635 0.000177915 635 100%
1986 669 0.000188076 663 6 98%
1987 628 0.000174173 623 5 98%
1988 660 0.000178618 660 100%
1989 606 0.00015763 606 100%
1990 687 0.000173815 687 100%
1991 601 0.00015429 601 100%
1992 546 0.00014214 546 100%
1993 490 0.000129964 490 100%
1994 504 0.000135569 504 100%
1995 413 0.000112775 413 100%
1996 385 0.000105561 385 100%
1997 417 0.000115011 417 100%
1998 372 0.000101136 372 100%
1999 370 0.000100166 370 100%
2000 392 0.000103706 392 100%
2001 340 0.000090827 340 100%
2002 252 0.00006741 252 100%
2003 264 0.000069431 264 100%
2004 265 0.000069355 260 5 96%
2005 241 0.000062681 241 100%
2006 214 0.000054092 214 100%
2007 161 0.000040273 161 100%
2008 169 0.000042995 169 100%
2009 117 0.000030627 117 100%
2010 107 0.000028952 107 100%
2011 88 0.000024058 88 100%
2012 82 0.000022421 82 100%
2013 62 0.000017006 62 100%
2014 55 0.000014839 55 100%
2015 42 0.000011349 42 100%
2016 52 0.000014174 52 100%
2017 42 0.000011744 42 100%
2018 37 0.000010524 37 100%
2019 24 0.000006915 24 100%
2020 23 0.000006885 23 100%
2021 19 0.000005608 19 100%
2022 23 0.000006798 23 100%
2023 21 0.000006342 21 100%
2024 14 0.000004206 14 100%

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