Lindsay

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Lindsay: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Lindsay: Recorded since 1952, it reached #58 in 1957, and it was last ranked in 2018.

5registrars recorded it
64times a registrar ranked it
67years from first to last
#58highest recorded position
18groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2018

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#506
1997	#604
1998	#801
1999	#864
2000	#1313
2001	#1238
2002	#2301
2003	#1552
2004	#1617
2005	#1406
2006	#2320
2007	#2627
2008	#2292
2009	#2759
2010	#2589
2012	#4171
2013	#5742
2014	#5691
2015	#4736
2016	#4096
2018	#3518

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 24 of the 32 years from 1973 to 2004.

In 2004: #677 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1617 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 5 national registrars across 5 regions, 1952–2018 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1952
First recorded at #66 among boys in New South Wales, Australia in 1952 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
New South Wales, Australia · Boys
Highest recorded1954–1963
Highest recorded position: #58 among boys in New Zealand, in 1957 (recorded 1954–1963).
New Zealand · Boys
Most recent2018
Most recently recorded at #3518 among girls in England and Wales, in 2018.
England and Wales · Girls

Lindsay appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Girls, with 24 ranked years and 317 births registered; the earliest is New South Wales, Australia · Boys, from 1952.

Lindsay across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Lindsay's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#449 (1973)	#173 (1984)	#677 (2004)	24 of 32	317 (1973–2004)	34 (1984)
England and Wales · Girls	#506 (1996)	#506 (1996)	#3518 (2018)	21 of 23	296 (1996–2018)	52 (1996)
New Zealand · Boys	#62 (1954)	#58 (1957)	#91 (1963)	10 of 10	883 (1954–1963)	124 (1957)
New South Wales, Australia · Boys	#66 (1952)	#63 (1954)	#88 (1960)	8 of 9	697 (1952–1960)	111 (1952)

Lindsay by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Lindsay in Republic of Ireland · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1970s	44	6 of 10	7
1980sbusiest	212	10 of 10	21
1990s	58	7 of 10	8
2000s	3	1 of 10	3

Across Republic of Ireland · Girls, the 1980s were its busiest decade, averaging 21 births a year.

See the names Republic of Irelandhas recorded the most births with →

Lindsay appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1952 to 2018. Highest recorded position: #58 in New Zealand in 1957.

Lindsay's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2018	England and Wales	female	#3518	6	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4096	5	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4736	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4171	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2589	9	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2759	8	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2292	10	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2627	8	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2320	9	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1406	16	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1617	13	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1552	13	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2301	7	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1238	16	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1313	14	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#864	25	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#801	28	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#604	42	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#506	52	High	Verified
1960	New South Wales, Australia	male	#88	73	Insufficient	Not yet available
1958	New South Wales, Australia	male	#98	62	Insufficient	Not yet available
1957	New South Wales, Australia	male	#81	85	Insufficient	Not yet available
1956	New South Wales, Australia	male	#91	66	Insufficient	Not yet available
1955	New South Wales, Australia	male	#74	81	Insufficient	Not yet available
1954	New South Wales, Australia	male	#63	110	Insufficient	Not yet available
1953	New South Wales, Australia	male	#64	109	Insufficient	Not yet available
1952	New South Wales, Australia	male	#66	111	Insufficient	Not yet available
1963	New Zealand	male	#91	68	High	Verified
1962	New Zealand	male	#88	73	High	Verified
1961	New Zealand	male	#84	78	High	Verified
1960	New Zealand	male	#89	70	High	Verified
1959	New Zealand	male	#83	77	High	Verified
1958	New Zealand	male	#79	84	High	Verified
1957	New Zealand	male	#58	124	High	Verified
1956	New Zealand	male	#70	93	High	Verified
1955	New Zealand	male	#63	108	High	Verified
1954	New Zealand	male	#62	108	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	female	#204	8	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	3	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	female	#273	12	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	female	#516	3	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	female	#374	6	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	female	#320	9	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	female	#363	7	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	female	#263	13	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	female	#336	8	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	female	#192	22	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	female	#214	19	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	female	#200	23	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	female	#205	21	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	female	#306	10	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	female	#173	34	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	female	#187	28	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	female	#216	24	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	female	#299	12	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#239	19	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#420	5	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	female	#348	8	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	female	#235	18	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	female	#360	6	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	female	#503	3	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	female	#449	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 5 registrars between 1952 and 2018, ranked in 55 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #58, first reached in 1957.

It held a top-100 place in 12 years, 12 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 124 births, registered in New Zealand in 1957.

Its record falls into 5 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 9 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1954, and 45 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Lindis · #319, 32y
Lindon · #1383, 24y
Lindsey · #144, 47y
Line · #10, 71y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 5 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Jakub · #57, 53y
Stanley · #59, 50y
Lea · #55, 50y
Todd · #55, 60y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Connie · #58, 69y
Darryl · #58, 66y
Janette · #58, 45y
Michal · #58, 64y

Lindsay was ranked #58 in New Zealand · Boys in 1957. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Malcolm#54
Robin#55
Simon#56
Jeffrey#57
Nigel#59
Gordon#60
George#61
Gavin#62

Lindsay and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Lindsay without appearing here.

Lindsay moved ahead of

Kim
In 2017 they stood at #4096 and #3609 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #3518 and #5666.
Kerry
In 2017 they stood at #4096 and #3609 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #3518 and #4684.
Siobhán
In 2017 they stood at #4096 and #2233 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #3518 and #4684.
Brittany
In 2015 they stood at #4736 and #3615 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #4096 and #4763.

Moved ahead of Lindsay

Teddy
In 2012 they stood at #2301 and #4137 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #5742 and #2460.
Meabh
In 2012 they stood at #4171 and #5876 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #5742 and #2887.
Blake
In 2011 they stood at #2759 and #3936 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #4171 and #1893.
Eabha
In 2011 they stood at #2589 and #3156 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #4171 and #2338.

Moved the opposite way to Lindsay

Abigail
Between 1973 and 2004 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Lindsay went from #449 to #677 while Abigail went from #374 to #42.
Alexandra
Between 1973 and 2004 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Lindsay went from #449 to #677 while Alexandra went from #271 to #68.
Alice
Between 1973 and 2004 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Lindsay went from #449 to #677 while Alice went from #140 to #81.
Amy
Between 1973 and 2004 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Lindsay went from #449 to #677 while Amy went from #218 to #4.

Moved the same way as Lindsay

Deirdre
Between 1973 and 2004 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Lindsay went from #449 to #677 and Deirdre from #7 to #340.
Evelyn
Between 1973 and 2004 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Lindsay went from #449 to #677 and Evelyn from #120 to #207.
Florence
Between 1973 and 2004 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Lindsay went from #449 to #677 and Florence from #317 to #576.
Gail
Between 1973 and 2004 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Lindsay went from #449 to #677 and Gail from #193 to #677.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 5 regions, from 1952 to 2018. Highest recorded position: #58 in New Zealand in 1957. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Lindsay

Lindsay at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Lindsay across 4 official records

Lindsay by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Lindsay appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Lindsay and the names beside it

Lindsay moved ahead of

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Lindsay at a glance

Lindsay across 4 official records

Lindsay by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Lindsay appears in

What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Lindsay

Lindsay and the names beside it

Lindsay moved ahead of

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