Lyndon
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ‘person from Lyndon’, Rutland, from a place-name meaning ‘hill growing with lime trees’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʎɪndən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lyndon is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 7.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 13K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 19K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 369 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘person from Lyndon’, Rutland, from a place-name meaning ‘hill growing with lime trees’.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lyndon 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | listed | Lyndon | 104 |
| US United States | — | 7,982 | 1 in 42K | 7.6K | Lyndon | 369 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 3 | Lyndon | 202 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 5 | Lyndon | 150 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Lyndon | 43 |
| NZ New Zealand | #674 | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 11 | Lyndon | 75 |
| GY Guyana | #173 | 278 | 1 in 2.7K | 278 | Lyndon | 3 |
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; the ph-wiktionary-names register; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Lyndon is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, in Leics. (formerly Rutland), so called from OE lind lime tree (cf. Linde and Line i) + dun hill (see Down i). Lyne i. English: var. of Line. 2. Irish: var. of Lane. 3. Scots: habitation name from a place in the former county of Peebles., so called from Gael, linne pool, stream. Vars.: Luzzato, Luzzat(t)i, Lussato.
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
English: transferred use of the surname, derived from the place known as Lyndon in the former county of Rutland (now part of Leicestershire), so called from Old English lind linden, lime tree + d n hill. Its modern use as a male given name owes something to the American president Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–73). Variant: Lindon .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Merritt Lyndon Fernaldb. 1873USAmerican botanist (1873-1950)
- Pamela Lyndon Traversb. 1899AUAustralian-British novelist, actress and journalist (1899–1996)
- Lyndon B. Johnsonb. 1908USpresident of the United States from 1963 to 1969 (1908–1973)
- Lyndon LaRoucheb. 1922USAmerican political activist (1922–2019)
- Lyndon Brookb. 1926GBBritish actor (1926-2004)
- Lyndon Johnstonb. 1961CAfigure skater
- Lyndon Riveb. 1977ZASouth African businessman (born 1977)
- Lyndon Fernsb. 1983ZAswimmer
- Lyndon Smithb. 1989USAmerican actress (born 1989)
- Lyndon Dykesb. 1995AUScotland association football player (born 1995)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 51 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 7.6K | #2,877 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 414 | #2,877 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 278 | #328 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 65 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 16 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1986 | 11 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 1992 | 5 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2023 | 3 | #728 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 1997 | 3 | #271 |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 1944 | 2 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 2016 | 1 | #787 |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1950 | 1 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Lyndon a male or female name?
- Lyndon is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Lyndon mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘person from Lyndon’, Rutland, from a place-name meaning ‘hill growing with lime trees’. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- How common is the name Lyndon?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,982 people named Lyndon in 2020, about 1 in 42 thousand residents.
- How common is Lyndon compared with other names?
- In Guyana, Lyndon is the 173rd most common given name of 15,440 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Lyndon?
- A machine transcription gives /ʎɪndən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Lyndon have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Lyndon in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lyndon.
- Where is Lyndon most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lyndon is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 2.7 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lyndonThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Lyndon” — the 173rd most common given name in Guyana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.