# Lindsay (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/lindsay/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | “isle of lind”, “lind”, “isle”, “pool”, “lake”, “liquid”, “island” |
| Pronunciation | /ˈlɪnzi/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Lindsey, Lyndsey |
| US babies named this | 135,501 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5,136 / 130,365 (96% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 296, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Lindsey in Lincolnshire, from Old English Lindesēġe, Lindesīġe (“Isle of Lind”), the Old English name of the city of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, in which "Lind" comes from the Common Brittonic form of the name of Lincoln and "isle" refers to Lincoln being surrounded by fenland; from Proto-Brythonic *llɨnn (“pool”), from Proto-Celtic *lindos (“lake, liquid”), in reference to the Brayford + Old English ēġ (“island”); cf. modern Welsh llyn and Dublin.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 435 | 655 |
| 2012 | 396 | 710 |
| 2013 | 412 | 687 |
| 2014 | 433 | 662 |
| 2015 | 328 | 853 |
| 2016 | 259 | 1,024 |
| 2017 | 217 | 1,147 |
| 2018 | 174 | 1,311 |
| 2019 | 144 | 1,512 |
| 2020 | 124 | 1,663 |
| 2021 | 148 | 1,456 |
| 2022 | 117 | 1,770 |
| 2023 | 93 | 2,084 |
| 2024 | 99 | 1,985 |
| 2025 | 84 | 2,208 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 9 | 6,628 |
| 1999 | 17 | 4,261 |
| 2000 | 12 | 5,771 |
| 2001 | 9 | 7,271 |
| 2003 | 6 | 10,356 |
| 2004 | 9 | 7,931 |
| 2005 | 12 | 6,466 |
| 2006 | 8 | 9,246 |
| 2007 | 10 | 7,950 |
| 2009 | 5 | 13,693 |
| 2011 | 6 | 11,715 |
| 2014 | 8 | 9,293 |
| 2015 | 9 | 8,445 |
| 2017 | 6 | 11,614 |
| 2021 | 7 | 10,361 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 7 | 2,301 |
| 2003 | 13 | 1,552 |
| 2004 | 13 | 1,617 |
| 2005 | 16 | 1,406 |
| 2006 | 9 | 2,320 |
| 2007 | 8 | 2,627 |
| 2008 | 10 | 2,292 |
| 2009 | 8 | 2,759 |
| 2010 | 9 | 2,589 |
| 2012 | 5 | 4,171 |
| 2013 | 3 | 5,742 |
| 2014 | 3 | 5,691 |
| 2015 | 4 | 4,736 |
| 2016 | 5 | 4,096 |
| 2018 | 6 | 3,518 |

## People named Lindsay

- Lindsay Lohan, American actress and singer (born 1986)
- Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player
- Lindsay Wagner, American actress
- Lindsay Anderson, British feature-film, theatre and documentary director and film critic (1923-1994)
- Lindsay Price, American actress and singer
- Lindsay Crouse, actress
- Lindsay Whalen, American Hall of Fame basketball player and coach
- Lindsay Kemp, British mime (1938-2018)
- Lindsay Sloane, American actress
- Lindsay Ellingson, American model
- Lindsay Rose, French and Mauritian association football player
- Lindsay Tarpley, American soccer player

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.