Lynn Girl Name

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The name Lynn is of English origin, and means pretty. The table below indicates the number of times the name Lynn has been given to baby girls in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby girls in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Lynn**
Use of the Name Lynn for Girls During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
179,013	115,065	8,738	419	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Lynn has been given to baby girls and baby boys each year, from 1880 through 2004. Lynn last appeared in the top thousand girl or boy names during 1996, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to girls or boys, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Lynn**
	Used as a Girl Name		Used as a Boy Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	897	5	309	30
1881			373	21
1882			341	27
1883			288	33
1884			343	27
1885			352	25
1886			344	25
1887			348	23
1888			475	17
1889			246	44
1890			333	28
1891			279	34
1892			295	39
1893	941	11	295	35
1894			346	28
1895			264	46
1896			309	37
1897			364	27
1898			271	44
1899			320	31
1900			343	41
1901			356	27
1902			310	39
1903			325	34
1904			317	40
1905	994	15	407	28
1906			327	40
1907			307	48
1908	956	18	312	50
1909			276	67
1910	907	23	313	63
1911	864	25	338	65
1912	969	28	286	156
1913	953	32	286	192
1914	872	45	298	230
1915	999	45	286	304
1916	923	55	287	320
1917	909	58	275	347
1918	865	69	282	363
1919	881	64	291	344
1920	928	62	272	412
1921	952	61	295	363
1922	843	76	287	383
1923	876	71	285	392
1924	850	79	283	408
1925	731	102	273	438
1926	754	92	296	368
1927	651	124	270	445
1928	654	115	264	465
1929	658	113	273	416
1930	540	158	261	456
1931	484	177	262	426
1932	422	244	239	496
1933	377	289	218	529
1934	363	303	216	563
1935	347	339	215	552
1936	308	384	200	615
1937	278	498	187	702
1938	232	721	181	811
1939	202	873	167	884
1940	193	955	159	1,049
1941	171	1,260	141	1,343
1942	149	1,748	146	1,399
1943	134	2,063	147	1,435
1944	116	2,255	154	1,281
1945	102	2,732	156	1,217
1946	94	3,880	155	1,517
1947	75	4,990	151	1,778
1948	80	4,606	157	1,564
1949	74	4,874	159	1,577
1950	76	5,021	155	1,619
1951	72	5,611	154	1,661
1952	71	5,815	167	1,590
1953	67	5,985	170	1,552
1954	63	6,779	187	1,412
1955	62	7,344	195	1,334
1956	58	7,734	209	1,248
1957	61	7,437	211	1,267
1958	60	7,211	239	1,053
1959	63	7,062	253	1,003
1960	64	6,850	255	961
1961	71	6,441	263	891
1962	71	6,214	264	831
1963	73	5,832	288	718
1964	72	5,675	307	646
1965	80	4,664	334	515
1966	81	4,307	340	485
1967	81	4,197	359	438
1968	85	4,100	363	456
1969	103	3,646	377	433
1970	119	3,265	417	381
1971	128	2,666	443	340
1972	135	2,250	461	292
1973	145	1,939	483	266
1974	163	1,649	533	225
1975	183	1,421	584	191
1976	215	1,147	597	184
1977	227	1,100	695	149
1978	223	1,108	677	152
1979	241	1,068	726	143
1980	253	1,016	664	169
1981	261	950	655	171
1982	295	834	799	123
1983	295	787	870	102
1984	330	705	866	103
1985	377	602	862	110
1986	424	513	976	89
1987	462	474
1988	484	468
1989	536	425
1990	580	398
1991	652	337
1992	743	285
1993	779	265
1994	787	260
1995	901	210
1996	933	209
Totals:		179,013		51,006

During the last 125 years, parents have used Lynn as a girl's name about 77% of the time and less frequently (about 22% of the time) as a boy's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Lynn appears in the top 1,000 girl names only 91 times during the last 125 years.

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