Líndsay
given name · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Líndsay is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Lindsey in Lincolnshire, from Old English Lindesēġe, Lindesīġe (“Isle of Lind”), the Old English name of the city of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, in which "Lind" comes from the Common Brittonic form of.
- USUnited States1 in 2.7K(measured from records)
- CRCosta Rica1 in 6.4K
- BRBrazil1 in 191K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 262 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
122,638 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Lindsay in US United States, BR Brazil, CR Costa Rica and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Lindseyin(measured from records)
- Old EnglishLindesēġe“Isle of Lind”(measured from records)
- Proto-Brythonic*llɨnn“pool”(measured from records)
- Proto-Celtic*lindos“lake“lake, liquid”(measured from records)
From Lindsey in Lincolnshire, from Old English Lindesēġe, Lindesīġe (“Isle of Lind”), the Old English name of the city of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, in which "Lind" comes from the Common Brittonic form of the name of Lincoln and "isle" refers to Lincoln being surrounded by fenland; from Proto-Brythonic *llɨnn (“pool”), from Proto-Celtic *lindos (“lake, liquid”), in reference to the Brayford + Old English ēġ (“island”); cf. modern Welsh llyn and Dublin.
Cited for this meaning 8
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Scottish Surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Líndsay counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 122,638 | 1 in 2.7K | 120K | Lindsay | 232 |
| BR Brazil | — | 1,110 | 1 in 191K | 1.1K | Lindsay | 82 |
| CR Costa Rica | #334 | 802 | 1 in 6.4K | 802 | Lindsay | 38 |
| SE Sweden | — | 160 | 1 in 64K | 160 | — | 1 |
| ES Spain | — | 115 | 1 in 435K | 115 | — | 32 |
| GY Guyana | — | 59 | 1 in 13K | 59 | — | — |
| NC New Caledonia | #148 | — | — | — | Lindsay | 8 |
122,638 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Líndsay mean, and where does it come from?
- From Lindsey in Lincolnshire, from Old English Lindesēġe, Lindesīġe (“Isle of Lind”), the Old English name of the city of Lincoln, Lincolnshire, in which "Lind" comes from the Common Brittonic form of… Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 6 other sources.
- In which country does Líndsay have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 123 thousand people named Líndsay, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lindsay.
- Where is Líndsay most common?
- Líndsay is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Líndsay?
- In the United States, the national register counted 122,638 people named Líndsay in 2020, about 1 in 2.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Líndsay compared with other names?
- In New Caledonia, Líndsay is the 148th most common given name of 870 given names recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Líndsay” — the 148th most common given name in New Caledonia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.