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Lindsay
Pronounced /ˈlɪnzi/
Rank in 2024
#1,983
Born in 2024
99
Peak year
1983 · #36
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 99 girls were named Lindsay, about 1 in every 16,295.
- It peaked in 1983 with 8,622 babies, ranked #36.
- It first shows up in the records in 1916.
- 130,283 girls have been named Lindsay since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Lindsay per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- 0.7Gen X1965–80
- 3.2Millennials1981–96
- 0.7Gen Z1997–12
- 0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 18 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 127 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,484 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen X: 17,000 babies, 0.67 per 1,000. Millennials: 89,648 babies, 3.17 per 1,000. Gen Z: 19,458 babies, 0.67 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 2,548 babies, 0.13 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Lindsey in Lincolnshire, from Old English Lindesēġe, Lindesīġe (“Isle of Lind”), the Old English name of the city of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, in which "Lind" comes from the Common Brittonic form of the name of Lincoln and "isle" refers to Lincoln being surrounded by fenland; from Proto-Brythonic *llɨnn (“pool”), from Proto-Celtic *lindos (“lake, liquid”), in reference to the Brayford + Old English ēġ (“island”); cf. modern Welsh llyn and Dublin.
- A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- A female given name transferred from the surname, of 1940s and later usage.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈlɪnzi/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Lindsay, CC BY-SA 4.0.