Lyn

girls’ name · 82%boys’ name · 18%FadedCompare

Lyn is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. Its best rank was 534th, in 1953.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 80.00% of girls
Peak year: 1957280 births
Best rank: #534in 1953
Since 1915: 8,772people given the name

Babies named Lyn, by year of birthgirlsboys

The story in the numbers

7,211 girls have been named Lyn in the United States since 1915, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1957, with 280 births.

The name has all but left use: 8 births in 2024, against 280 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1957, and the 1950s alone account for 34%. It has spent 31 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Lyn is used for both sexes: 18% of its bearers are boys (1,561), most of them born around 1950.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Lyn
1910s	25
1920s	80
1930s	266
1940s	1,387
1950s	2,448
1960s	1,787
1970s	699
1980s	252
1990s	127
2000s	73
2010s	48
2020s	19

In 1957, its biggest year

Lyn was the 577th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1957 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Debra and Karen. See all of 1957.

Names that rose and fell with Lyn

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.