Meaning and history
From an English surname derived from place names ultimately based on the Welsh word llyn, meaning “lake,” Lynn was used mainly for boys before the early 20th century but is now more often given to girls. It is also sometimes treated as a short form of Linda or of names ending in lyn or line.
20062006: 119 births, rank #1,743
2007: 137 births, rank #1,621
2008: 107 births, rank #1,966
2009: 94 births, rank #2,139
2010: 111 births, rank #1,830
20112011: 110 births, rank #1,829
2012: 92 births, rank #2,078
2013: 92 births, rank #2,083
2014: 88 births, rank #2,154
2015: 84 births, rank #2,236
20162016: 93 births, rank #2,093
2017: 90 births, rank #2,129
2018: 71 births, rank #2,478
2019: 96 births, rank #1,999
2020: 79 births, rank #2,257
20212021: 68 births, rank #2,558
2022: 54 births, rank #3,033
2023: 52 births, rank #3,140
2024: 60 births, rank #2,798
20252025: 69 births, rank #2,542
Lynn moved from #900 to #933 for girls between 1995 and 1996. Its highest annual birth count came in 1956, with 7,736 births.