Girl or boy · Welsh, through English
Lynn
Say it: LIN
Meaning
From an English surname derived from Welsh llyn 'lake'; as a girls' name it is also taken from names ending in -line or -lyn.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Used for boys from the late 19th century and for girls mainly from the 1940s; very common as a middle name.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1950s
In the United States
- 234,386 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1956, about 1 in 259 girls
- 91 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Lynne, Linn
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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