Lynette
About 43,445 American babies have been named Lynette since 1897, most of them around 1965. In 2025 it ranked 2,607th. About 37,000 Lynettes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 59.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Lynette boys named Lynette
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 43,445
- Estimated living today
- 37,000
- Median age today
- 59
- Peak year
- 1965
- Best rank
- 225th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,607th
- First recorded
- 1897
- Girls / boys
- 43,392 / 53
How old the living Lynettes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 43,445 babies given the name since 1897, about 37,000 are alive — 84 in every hundred. Roughly 1,500 of them are children and 12,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1966 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Welsh
Anglicized form of Welsh Eluned, first used by Tennyson in the Idylls of the King(1859-85), altered by folk etymology to be.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Lynettes
- Lynette Woodard (born 1959)American basketball player
- Lynette Yiadom Boakye (born 1977)British artist
- Lynette Fromme (born 1948)attempted assassin of Gerald Ford
People named Lynette with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Lynette is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Lynette is most concentrated in Hawaii (4.7×), South Dakota (3.2×), North Dakota (3.1×), Utah (2.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1965
The most popular girls’ names the year Lynette peaked:
Lynette elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand girls | Lynette | 3,666 | 11th |
| Scotland girls | Lynette | 369 | 115th |
| Ireland girls | Lynette | 144 | 236th |
| France girls | Lynette | 90 | 2,277th |
| England and Wales girls | Lynette | 71 | 2,509th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Lynette among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Lynette | — | 9 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Lynette against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.