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Lindsay
Pronounced /ˈlɪnzi/
Rank in 2024
unranked
Born in 2024
0
Peak year
1960 · #632
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:99 in 2024 (#1,983)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- No boys were recorded as Lindsay in 2024; the SSA lists names only when 5 or more babies get them.
- It peaked in 1960 with 152 babies, ranked #632.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 5,136 boys 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
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 738 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Silent: 746 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,846 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Gen X: 721 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Millennials: 784 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen Z: 111 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 30 babies, 0.00 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.