as a First Name
Either a variant spelling of Lindsay, or a transferred use of the English surname derived in the Middle Ages from Lindsey in Suffolk, which is named with the Old English personal name Lelli + Old English eg ‘island’.
| 404th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 137,663
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 154,316
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- Utah
- has the most people named Lindsey per capita
- 1984
- marked the height of its popularity
98%
2%
0.81%
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55+
16%
30-54
30-54
56%
13-29
13-29
27%
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