Lynne
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A surname from Scottish Gaelic, a rare spelling variant of Lynn
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʎɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lynne is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Singapore it is the 12th most common given name.
- VNVietnam≈1 in 198as Lan(inferred from the name graph)
- DKDenmark1 in 344as Line
- FRFrance≈1 in 407as Celine
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lynne itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #84 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 617 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 198 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600,000 named Lynn, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Vietnam, est., as Lan
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Lynn in US United States, GB United Kingdom, SG Singapore and 3 more, Celine in FR France, NO Norway and Lan in VN Vietnam.
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)
A surname from Scottish Gaelic, a rare spelling variant of Lynn.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lynne 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈1,600,000 est. | ≈1 in 886 | — | Lynn | 140 |
| VN Vietnam | #38 | ≈500,000 est. | ≈1 in 198 | listed | Lan | 217 |
| US United States | #41 | 193,296as Lynn | 1 in 1.7K | 164K | Lynn | 617 |
| FR France | #30 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 407 | 239K | Celine | 402 |
| GB United Kingdom | #60 | ≈78,000 est. | ≈1 in 840 | 77 | Lynn | 283 |
| DK Denmark | #363 | 17,062as Line | 1 in 344 | 17K | Lynn | 73 |
| NO Norway | #593 | 10,043as Line | 1 in 544 | 34K | Celine | 65 |
| IE Ireland | #33 | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 784 | — | Lynn | 109 |
| SG Singapore | #12 | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 984 | — | Lynn | 129 |
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; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Lynne is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, mindset, mood
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Lynne Reid Banksb. 1929GBBritish writer (1929–2024)
- Lynne Cheneyb. 1941USSecond Lady of the United States from 2001 to 2009
- Lynne Thigpenb. 1948USAmerican actress (1948–2003)
- Lynne Frederickb. 1954GBBritish actress (1954–1994)
- Cynthia Cooperb. 1963USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball player and coach
- Dana Hillb. 1964USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (1964–1996)
- Liz Cheneyb. 1966USnot in their usual nameUnited States Representative from Wyoming from 2017 to 2023
- Lynne Ramsayb. 1969GBScottish film director, writer, producer, and cinematographer (born 1969)
- Tyra Banksb. 1973USnot in their usual nameAmerican television personality, producer, and former model
- Kerry Bishéb. 1984NZnot in their usual nameNew Zealand-born American actress
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 53 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 54K | #847 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 215 | #847 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 108 | #7,351 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 30 | #3,723 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1969 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 6 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2000 | 3 | #629 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2020 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | The Penguin Book of Baby Names (David Pickering) | — | — | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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
- What does the name Lynne mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Scottish Gaelic, a rare spelling variant of Lynn. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Lynne?
- In the etymology graph, Lyn, Lindy and Linnie are forms of the same name in other languages; Lynette, Lynnette and Linette are recorded short or pet forms.
- How do you pronounce Lynne?
- A machine transcription gives /ʎɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Lynne a male or female name?
- Lynne is a female 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.
- How common is the name Lynne?
- In the United States, the national register counted 193,296 people named Lynn in 2020, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Lynne compared with other names?
- In Singapore, Lynne is the 12th most common given name of 52,448 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Lynne have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 million people named Lynn in China, more than in any other country we hold.
What do you want to know about Lynne?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lynneThe 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, “Lynne” — the 12th most common given name in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.