Feminine dossier · first seen 1916

Lindsay

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Lindsay
Creator: Social Security Administration

Endangered Down 98.9% from peak

Peak era

1983

Peak rank proxy

8,622

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Millennial

1916Peak 19832024

Peak year

1983

Decline from peak

98.9%

2024

All-time

130,283

Lindsay once had enough force to mark a generation, but its current usage is a small remnant of that peak. The name still exists, yet now reads as a timestamp: personal, recognizable, and culturally receding.

Your name peaked in 1983, when 8,622 girls were named Lindsay.

In 2024, only 99 girls were given the name.

Down 98.9% from its peak.

All told, about 130,283 Americans have been named Lindsay and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1916.

Rarity scoreVery uncommon

AssociationMillennial

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 98.9% from peak

19838,622 girls named Lindsay

202499 girls named Lindsay

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