← Back to The High and Late Middle Ages
Girl · Old English place name
Lindsey
Say it: LIN-zee
Meaning
From a surname taken from Lindsey in Lincolnshire, Old English 'island of Lincoln'.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Popular as an American girls' name in the 1980s and 1990s.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1980s
In the United States
- 164,368 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1984, about 1 in 187 girls
- 253 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Lindsay, Linsey, Lyndsey
Famous bearers
- Lindsey Vonn, American skier
Names worth a look
Where this comes from
- 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.