Girl · Welsh, through English
Lynne
Say it: LIN
Meaning
A spelling of Lynn, from an English surname derived from Welsh llyn 'lake', and from names ending in -line or -lyn.
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Mostly used in the US and Britain in the 1940s to 1960s.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1960s
In the United States
- 62,376 babies given this name since 1907
- At its height in 1962, about 1 in 799 girls
- 8 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Lynn, Lyn
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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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