Lynn
Lynn is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 60 births. Its best rank was 58th, in 1956.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 600.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19567,736 births
- Best rank
- #58in 1956
- Since 1880
- 234,691people given the name
The story in the numbers
182,316 girls have been named Lynn in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1956, with 7,736 births — 0.39% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 60 births in 2024, against 7,736 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1958, and the 1950s alone account for 36%. It has spent 90 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 23 of them in the top 100.
Lynn is used for both sexes: 22% of its bearers are boys (52,375), most of them born around 1947.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lynn | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 15 | |
| 1890s | 46 | |
| 1900s | 121 | |
| 1910s | 444 | |
| 1920s | 896 | |
| 1930s | 3,987 | |
| 1940s | 29,387 | |
| 1950s | 66,047 | |
| 1960s | 51,930 | |
| 1970s | 17,610 | |
| 1980s | 6,778 | |
| 1990s | 2,480 | |
| 2000s | 1,336 | |
| 2010s | 927 | |
| 2020s | 312 |
In 1956, its biggest year
Lynn was the 58th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1956 were Mary, Debra, Linda, Deborah and Susan. See all of 1956.
Names that rose and fell with Lynn
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Karenpeak 1957
- Gaylapeak 1954
- Pamelapeak 1954
- Lynpeak 1957
- Sherylpeak 1957
- Brendapeak 1957
- Cherylpeak 1958
- Vikipeak 1958
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.