From the region Lindsey in England, which means ‘Lincoln’s island’, the surname Lindsay developed. Since the late 19th century, it was in use as a given name.
Lindsay is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Lindsay isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Lindsay ranks 950. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 2 were named Lindsay. In the entire USA, approximately 128,855 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Lindsay. That is 0.04 % of all living Americans.
From the region Lindsey in England, which means ‘Lincoln’s island’, the surname Lindsay developed. Since the late 19th century, it was in use as a given name.
Until the 1970s,... Lindsay was primarily known as a name for boys in the US.
#36 - this is the highest position Lindsay has ever reached. Not many names manage to reach such a high popularity in even one of the 140+ years of records. The last time Lindsay reached this top spot at the end of the past century in 1984 when 8,583newborn girls were named Lindsay. But as our statistics show, Lindsay hasn't always been a popular name: in some years of record, most recently in the year 1906, it was given to newborns not at all or at least less than 5 times (a name is only included in the official statistics only if it is given at least 5 times in a year). Nevertheless, the name Lindsay has accompanied people in this country for a long time. It turns out that this name fits very well in our modern times. From zero to hero – even if its peak is in the past, Lindsay has become a fashionable name after all.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Lindsay was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 117 newborn girls were given the name Lindsay, making this first name #1,584. Towards the end of the last century, the name had a real flight of fancy and still captivates many people today − just like the music of the 80s. So, the chances to meet a young Lindsay are still quite high.
Everyone knows her, everyone loves her and still she’s different from the mainstream: Lindsay occurs in every single state of the U.S. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the more than 50,000 different female first names that occur in the USA, just 537 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Lindsay is definitely something very special. However, at the same time, since the name does not appear in the top 100 most common first names in any single state, Lindsay is not one of those names that one encounters in every neighbourhood, but stands out from the crowd, is noticeable and special without being strange or unknown. From Alaska to Florida, a total of 127,283 women and girls of all generations bear the name Lindsay – that is one in 1,211. However, there are considerable regional differences – the name is far more popular than average in New Hampshire, where one in 589 women and girls is called Lindsay, while it is particularly rare in Mississippi, where you have to ask an average of 2,921 women for their name to get Lindsay as an answer once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names – 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A and S.
With seven letters, the name Lindsay has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with an L, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which girls' name with L is the most common... the answer is Linda.
If your name is Lindsay and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Lindsay, you can simply say:
Lion
Igloo
Nut
Dinosaur
Sun
Apple
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lindsay
Lindsay
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
I
N
D
S
A
Y
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
L
I
N
D
S
A
Y
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Lindsay sounds like this:
