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Girl · Old English place name, through Scottish
Lindsay
Say it: LIN-zee
Meaning
From a Scottish surname taken from Lindsey in Lincolnshire, Old English 'island of Lincoln' (Lindon + ēg 'island').
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
A male surname-name in Scotland, it became a popular American girls' name in the 1980s.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1980s
In the United States
- 134,954 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1983, about 1 in 194 girls
- 124 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Lindsey, Linsey, Lyndsay
Famous bearers
- Lindsay Lohan, American actress
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Where this comes from
- Royal and noble genealogies
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.