Lynn

Girls' name · Mid-century

Living in the US: ~177,500 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank: #2,542 among girls
Births in 2025: 84 234,778 since 1880
Typical age: 66 years, median

Lynn popularity over time

Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1880–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

Lynn was used most in 1956, when 8,989 babies were given the name. It is present from 1880, the first year of the record. Across the record, 23 years put Lynn in the top 100.

The 2025 position is #2,542, on 84 births. It climbed 256 places against the previous year.

Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Lynn?

Roughly 177,500 Lynns are alive in the US right now. SSA has recorded 234,778 births under the name since 1880. The split is about 150,100 women and 27,500 men.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Lynn?

Median age among living Lynns: 66. Most living bearers were born in the 1950s. By the site’s era rules that makes Lynn a mid-century name.

Your Lynn

Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Is Lynn a boy's or a girl's name?

Share of all recorded US births under this name, 1880 to the latest year.

Mostly given to girls: 17.7% of the last ten years of births were boys. Across the whole record, 77.7% of births under the name were girls. The dominant sex is not the same at the end of the record as at the start.

Lynn in England and Wales

In England and Wales, Lynn ranked #4,201 in 2025 on 5 births.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Lynn comes from

English Wiktionary: given name from surnames.

Notable people named Lynn

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
	Known for	Years	Editions
Lynn Margulis	American evolutionary biologist	1938–2011	58
Lynn Redgrave	British actress	1943–2010	49
Lynn Collins	American actress	1977	42
Lynn Conway	American computer scientist and electrical engineer	1938–2024	36
Lynn Fontanne	British actress	1887–1983	33
Lynn Anderson	American country music singer	1947–2015	30

Photo credits (5)

Lynn Margulis — Jpedreira, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons
Lynn Redgrave — John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Lynn Collins — Grant Brummett at https://www.flickr.com/photos/grantbrummett/, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Lynn Fontanne — Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Lynn Anderson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Lynn

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Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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