Meaning and history
Lynette is a form of Lynet used by Alfred Tennyson in his 1872 poem Gareth and Lynette, in which Gareth and Lynette are eventually married; in modern usage, it is also regarded as a diminutive of Lynn.
20062006: 113 births, rank #1,809
2007: 108 births, rank #1,908
2008: 127 births, rank #1,740
2009: 124 births, rank #1,756
2010: 106 births, rank #1,897
20112011: 91 births, rank #2,103
2012: 102 births, rank #1,929
2013: 91 births, rank #2,096
2014: 77 births, rank #2,371
2015: 96 births, rank #2,039
20162016: 89 births, rank #2,168
2017: 69 births, rank #2,546
2018: 65 births, rank #2,647
2019: 67 births, rank #2,593
2020: 78 births, rank #2,277
20212021: 70 births, rank #2,510
2022: 64 births, rank #2,689
2023: 69 births, rank #2,555
2024: 63 births, rank #2,722
20252025: 66 births, rank #2,607
Lynette moved from #995 to #999 for girls between 1993 and 1994. Its highest annual birth count came in 1965, with 1,413 births.