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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Lynn

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#2,558

up +253 places

2025 births

69

up +9 births

All-time births

182,387

0% of them in 2025

More common than

100%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1956
7,736 births
Best rank
#58
in 1956
First recorded
1880
#897 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1959
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
135 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 19567,736#58Peak
  2. 19577,442#61
  3. 19557,355#62
  4. 19587,214#60
  5. 19597,058#63

Rank over time

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

Best rank #58 in 1956 · peak births 7,736 in 1956

Boys and girls

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

● 22% boys■ 78% girls

52,391 boys · 182,387 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 Lynn has ranked, decade by decade

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