Lynsey
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/linzi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lynsey is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant spelling of )Lindsay. Lynette ° In modern use a derivative of )Lynn, formed with the French feminine di- minutive suffix -ette.
- SESweden1 in 1M(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 1.5M
- NLNetherlands1 in 14Kas Linsey
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Lynsey 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 12 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.0M (inferred from the name graph)
5,184 named Linsey, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Linsey in US United States.
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)
Variant spelling of )Lindsay. Lynette ° In modern use a derivative of )Lynn, formed with the French feminine di- minutive suffix -ette. However, this is not the origin for the name as used in Tennyson’s Idylls of the King (1859-85), through which it first came to public attention. There, it represents an altered form of some Celtic original; compare Welsh pEluned. Variants: Lynnette, Lin(n)ette, Linnet.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lynsey 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 | 5,184as Linsey | 1 in 64K | 5K | Linsey | 12 |
| NL Netherlands | 1,260as Linsey | 1 in 14K | 1.3K | — | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | 144as Linsey | 1 in 35K | 144 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 10 | 1 in 1M | 10 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 4 | 1 in 1.5M | 4 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 2as Linsey | 1 in 375K | 2 | — | — |
5,184 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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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)
Lynsey 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.
English: variant spelling of LINDSAY .
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)
- Lynsey DuFourb. 1901USAmerican television writer
- Lynsey de Paulb. 1950GBEnglish singer-songwriter (1948–2014)
- Lynsey Baxterb. 1959GBBritish actress
- Lynsey Addariob. 1973USAmerican photojournalist
- Lynsey Bartilsonb. 1983USAmerican actress
- Lynsey Clarkeb. 1983AUAustralian lawn bowler
- Lynsey Alexanderb. 1983GBMake-up artist
- Lynsey Askewb. 1986NZcricketer
- Lynsey Sharpb. 1990GBScottish middle-distance runner
- Lynsey McCulloughb. 1991IEIrish tennis player
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 28 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.5K | #4,190 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1982 | 254 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1988 | 246 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1985 | 241 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1987 | 227 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1984 | 223 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1986 | 216 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1983 | 206 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 199 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1989 | 195 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1990 | 186 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1993 | 177 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- What does the name Lynsey mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant spelling of )Lindsay. Lynette ° In modern use a derivative of )Lynn, formed with the French feminine di- minutive suffix -ette. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What are other forms of the name Lynsey?
- In the etymology graph, Lindsay, Lindsey and Lyndsey are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Lynsey?
- A machine transcription gives /linzi/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Lynsey a male or female name?
- Lynsey 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.
- In which country does Lynsey have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 5.2 thousand people named Linsey, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Lynsey most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lynsey is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 1.0 million people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lynsey?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 10 people named Lynsey, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
What do you want to know about Lynsey?
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/lynseyThe 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, “Lynsey”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.