Origin: | From a Old English word for wetland | Tools: Add to favorites Generate: Twitter-able text SMS text Compare to: Behind the Name Search with: Wikipedia NNDB IMDb Google |
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Name info: About the name Lyndsey in particular | |
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Group info: About Lindsay/Lindsay, the group of names with the same origin as Lyndsey | Language of origin: | Old English |
Info about origin, female: | use of a Scottish family name as given name |
| the family name is related to Lindsey in Lincolnshire |
| Lindsey means Lincoln's wetland |
| there are however alternative interpretations of Lindsey, e.g. island in the river Lindum |
| in Scottland used as a male name, everywhere else mostly as a female name only |
Words: | ey = the wetland Old English |
| ey = the island Old Norse |
Topics: | Family name, Geographic name, Interesting |
Variants' top ranks: | 44:Lindsey USA 1980-1989, 47:Lindsay USA 1980-1989, 94:Lyndsey England+Wales 1984, 96:Lynsey England+Wales 1984, 908:Lyndsay USA 1993 |
Name variants: | Lindsay, Lindsey, Lyndsay, Lyndsey, Lynsey, Lindsay, Lindsey Sortable list Details |
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Popularity: Popularity lists that contain the name Lyndsey | Series | Graph | Rankings |
England+Wales decades | | 1984 94 |
USA decades | Graph | 1990-1999 475, 1980-1989 411 |
USA yearly | Graph | 2004 926, 2003 902, 2002 891, 2001 717, 2000 636, 1999 636, 1998 627, 1997 561, 1996 593, 1995 561, 1994 494, 1993 502 |
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