Feminine dossier · first seen 1880

Lynn

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

Endangered Down 99.2% from peak

Peak era

1956

Peak rank proxy

7,736

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Boomer

1880Peak 19562024

Peak year

1956

Decline from peak

99.2%

2024

All-time

182,316

Lynn 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 1956, when 7,736 girls were named Lynn.

In 2024, only 60 girls were given the name.

Down 99.2% from its peak.

All told, about 182,316 Americans have been named Lynn and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1880.

Rarity scoreVery uncommon

AssociationBoomer

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 99.2% from peak

19567,736 girls named Lynn

202460 girls named Lynn

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