first name
LYNSEY
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 4,560 people named Lynsey, 87% reported their origin as White, 4.8% as Hispanic or Latino and 3.4% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.6%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Lynsey peaked in 1982, when 254 babies got the name.
At least 4,929 babies have been given the name since 1966. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.
Lynsey by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1980s, when it ranked #1,409. The largest share of babies named Lynsey, 63.7%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Lynsey is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Lynsey has been most common in Michigan (1.9×), Colorado (1.8×), and Indiana (1.8×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.44×).
2,911 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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3 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Lynsey, most common first.
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