Lindsey

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Lindsey: Recorded since 1973, it reached #144 in 1983, and it stood at #5,927 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
55times a registrar ranked it
53years from first to last
#144highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2025

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#402
1997	#456
1998	#552
1999	#624
2000	#1095
2001	#1063
2002	#1372
2003	#1843
2004	#1158
2005	#1934
2006	#1325
2007	#2895
2008	#1815
2009	#2148
2010	#2392
2011	#3185
2012	#4838
2014	#4003
2015	#2496
2016	#5785
2017	#4063
2018	#5666
2019	#5591
2020	#4535
2022	#5669
2025	#5927

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 28 of the 36 years from 1973 to 2008.

In 2008: #665 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1815 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1973–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1973
First recorded at #508 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1973 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1973–2008
Highest recorded position: #144 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1983 (recorded 1973–2008).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #5927 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Girls

Lindsey appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Girls, which has ranked it in 28 years beginning in 1973, and has registered 384 births with the name.

Lindsey across 2 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.

Lindsey'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	#508 (1973)	#144 (1983)	#665 (2008)	28 of 36	384 (1973–2008)	47 (1983)
England and Wales · Girls	#402 (1996)	#402 (1996)	#5927 (2025)	26 of 30	437 (1996–2025)	80 (1996)

Lindsey 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 Lindsey in Republic of Ireland · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1970s	27	5 of 10	5
1980sbusiest	245	10 of 10	25
1990s	91	8 of 10	11
2000s	21	5 of 10	4

Across Republic of Ireland · Girls, the 1980s were its busiest decade, averaging 25 births a year.

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

Lindsey 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 3 regions, from 1973 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #144 in Republic of Ireland in 1983.

Lindsey'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
2025	England and Wales	female	#5927	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#5669	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#4535	4	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#5591	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4063	5	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2496	10	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4003	5	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4838	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#3185	7	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2392	10	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2148	11	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1815	14	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2895	7	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1325	19	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1934	11	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1158	20	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1843	10	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1372	14	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1063	19	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1095	18	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#624	41	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#552	49	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#456	64	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#402	80	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	female	#301	4	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#665	5	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#842	3	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#414	7	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#606	3	High	Verified
2000	Republic of Ireland	female	#536	3	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	female	#304	10	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	female	#248	14	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	female	#451	4	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	female	#411	5	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	female	#448	4	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	female	#269	13	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	female	#207	19	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	female	#196	22	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	female	#212	19	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	#227	17	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	female	#208	23	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	female	#161	37	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	female	#144	47	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	female	#161	39	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	female	#263	15	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#401	6	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#420	5	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	female	#469	4	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	female	#329	9	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	female	#360	6	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	female	#508	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
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 3 registrars between 1973 and 2025, ranked in 47 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #144, first reached in 1983.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 80 births, registered in England and Wales in 1996.

Its record falls into 5 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 25 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.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Clifford · #142, 52y
Diarmaid · #142, 50y
Meadhbh · #142, 47y
Roderick · #146, 48y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Ewelina · #143, 33y
Sanne · #143, 39y
Meadhbh · #142, 47y
Kaisa · #147, 42y

Lindsey was ranked #144 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1983. 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.

Clodagh#142
Joanna#142
Frances#144
Georgina#144
Colette#147
Maire#147
Marian#147
Kathryn#150

Lindsey 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 Lindsey without appearing here.

Lindsey moved ahead of

Cheryl
In 1995 they stood at #451 and #451 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1996 that had become #248 and #534.
Debra
In 1996 they stood at #411 and #411 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 1997 that had become #304 and #576.
Gail
In 2003 they stood at #448 and #448 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2004 that had become #414 and #677.
Tania
In 2003 they stood at #606 and #498 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2004 that had become #414 and #677.

Moved ahead of Lindsey

Carmel
In 2015 they stood at #2496 and #3252 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #5785 and #2120.
Meabh
In 2015 they stood at #2496 and #4103 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #5785 and #2233.
Fiadh
In 2015 they stood at #2496 and #2705 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #5785 and #2757.
Tove
In 2017 they stood at #4063 and #5765 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #5666 and #2674.

Moved the opposite way to Lindsey

Caitlin
Between 1976 and 2008 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Lindsey went from #360 to #665 while Caitlin went from #497 to #46.
Chloe
Between 1976 and 2008 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Lindsey went from #360 to #665 while Chloe went from #497 to #9.
Holly
Between 1976 and 2008 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Lindsey went from #360 to #665 while Holly went from #392 to #26.
Megan
Between 1976 and 2008 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Lindsey went from #360 to #665 while Megan went from #497 to #32.

Moved the same way as Lindsey

Alma
Between 1973 and 2007 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Lindsey went from #508 to #842 and Alma from #262 to #842.
Abigail
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Lindsey went from #402 to #5927 and Abigail from #21 to #171.
Aimee
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Lindsey went from #402 to #5927 and Aimee from #70 to #1809.
Aisling
Between 1996 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Lindsey went from #402 to #5927 and Aisling from #440 to #1892.

What's not yet available

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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 3 regions, from 1973 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #144 in Republic of Ireland in 1983. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Lindsey

Lindsey at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Lindsey across 2 official records

Lindsey by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Lindsey appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1970s

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Lindsey and the names beside it

Lindsey moved ahead of

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Lindsey at a glance

Lindsey across 2 official records

Lindsey by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Lindsey appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Lindsey

Lindsey and the names beside it

Lindsey moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Lindsey

Moved the opposite way to Lindsey

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