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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Lyn

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#10,579

up +1,162 places

2025 births

9

up +1 births

All-time births

7,220

0% of them in 2025

More common than

97%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1957
280 births
Best rank
#534
in 1953
First recorded
1915
#3,032 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1959
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
101 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 1957280#577Peak
  2. 1962279#597
  3. 1956277#564
  4. 1954274#536
  5. 1955268#554

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #534 in 1953 · peak births 280 in 1957

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 18% boys■ 82% girls

1,561 boys · 7,220 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Lyn has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.