Recorded 1880–2025 · United States
Lindsey was most popular in 1984, when 9,119 American babies were given the name — ranking #81 that year. In 2025 it ranked #2,571, with 161 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 165,286 people named Lindsey.
The Social Security Administration’s records begin in 1880, and Lindsey is already there in that first year — so the name is older than the record and these figures cannot date it. It has been recorded in 146 of the 146 years since.
The Social Security Administration has recorded 165,286 American births named Lindsey between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 158,443 are estimated to be alive today.
161 American babies were named Lindsey in 2025, ranking #2,571 that year.
Lindsey is falling. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 182 births a year, against 557 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of -67% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Across the whole record Lindsey is a girl’s name — 95.3% of the 165,286 Americans given it were girls and 4.7% were boys. It changed hands: since 1971 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that. In births since 2016 it is 98% girls and 2% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
Roughly 158,443 Americans named Lindsey are alive today — 96% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 37 years old, and half are between 30 and 42. That is a narrow band: Lindsey arrived and faded within about a decade rather than staying in steady use.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Old English · a place name, "Lincoln's island"
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org