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Lynette
Pronounced /lɪˈnɛt/
Rank in 2024
#2,724
Born in 2024
63
Peak year
1965 · #225
Origin
Welsh
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 63 girls were named Lynette, about 1 in every 25,606.
- It peaked in 1965 with 1,412 babies, ranked #225.
- It first shows up in the records in 1897.
- 43,326 girls have been named Lynette since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Lynette per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- 0.1Silent1928–45
- 0.5Boomers1946–64
- 0.6Gen X1965–80
- 0.2Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 596 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Silent: 2,467 babies, 0.12 per 1,000. Boomers: 18,762 babies, 0.52 per 1,000. Gen X: 14,213 babies, 0.56 per 1,000. Millennials: 4,460 babies, 0.16 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,924 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 898 babies, 0.04 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Anglicized form of Welsh Eluned, first used by Tennyson in the Idylls of the King(1859-85), altered by folk etymology to be Lynn + -ette.
- A female given name from Welsh.
- Origin
- Welsh
- Say it
- /lɪˈnɛt/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Lynette, CC BY-SA 4.0.