Is Lindsey/Lindsay ready for a comeback?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I only know men with this name. I've never heard of a girl named Lindsay, that's so sad, poor girl. I kid!!

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Really???

No, it was a joke poking fun at the Quinn thread where some were insisting it wasn't for girls while actual stats showed more girls were named Quinn. Lindsay is a great name for a girl and unique among this generation.

[Anonymous]

No.

[Anonymous]

I like Linda a lot better, especially the spanish pronunciation. A nick name I love for Linda is Linny!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lindsay/Jennifer/Nicole are another generation or two away.

+1, it just doesn't sound right to my ears. I'd add Jessica to this list as well. I think the many women with these names are still too young for us to "revive" them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lindsay/Jennifer/Nicole are another generation or two away.

+1, it just doesn't sound right to my ears. I'd add Jessica to this list as well. I think the many women with these names are still too young for us to "revive" them.

I agree, but also wonder why some names that were common in the 80s don’t sound as generation-specific. For instance, I know some little girls now named Katie/Catherine, Sarah, and Emily. These were super popular when I was a kid (I’m mid-30s). These names are pretty classic, yes, but then why does another classic name like Rebecca feel 80s to me?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lindsay/Jennifer/Nicole are another generation or two away.

+1, it just doesn't sound right to my ears. I'd add Jessica to this list as well. I think the many women with these names are still too young for us to "revive" them.

I agree, but also wonder why some names that were common in the 80s don’t sound as generation-specific. For instance, I know some little girls now named Katie/Catherine, Sarah, and Emily. These were super popular when I was a kid (I’m mid-30s). These names are pretty classic, yes, but then why does another classic name like Rebecca feel 80s to me?

I think it might just be you because Rebecca sounds very classic to me, not 80s. Agree it was popular in the 80s like the others you mention, but it was not unpopular before that -- it was in the top 100 from like 1940 to 2000, and even now it's in the top 300 so not super out of favor. Emily is similar -- it got very popular starting in the 70s, but was top 300s all through the 20th century. Sarah even more so -- it's never been out of the top 100. Catherine/Katherine same deal, plus if you combine them it would be ranked even higher. Rachel is another name like this. Maybe less common now than in the 80s, but not exactly uncommon. Elizabeth. Caroline. Same deal. Simply never very unpopular.

Nicole, though, shot from the 800/900s in the 1950s to a top 100 name by the end of the 1960s, and then kept climbing. It's still not that uncommon (top 300s) but it spent far less time close to the top of the list than the ones in the last paragraph, so it feels more distinctly 70s/80s/90s to me. I don't know any Nicoles from my grandma's generation, but I know older women with all of the other names.

Lindsay is even more dramatic. As a girls name, it was in the 800s/900s for a few years in the 50s, then disappeared all through the 60s, then came back in 1974 (in the 600s) and was a top 40 name by the early 80s. And now it's back in the 800s. So it really feels like a 70s/80s name.

Every generation has these names. For my mom's generation, it was names like Linda, Peggy, Susan, Patricia. For my grandmother, names like Alice, Mae, Ruby, Vivian. For me, it's Jessica, Lindsay, Jennifer, Nicole. And for my kid it's probably going to be Sophia, Eleanor, Eva/Ava, Charlotte. These are all great names! But they are not "classics" the way Sarah, Emily, Catherine, or Elizabeth are.

[Anonymous]

I could see it coming back as a boy name.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lindsay/Jennifer/Nicole are another generation or two away.

+1, it just doesn't sound right to my ears. I'd add Jessica to this list as well. I think the many women with these names are still too young for us to "revive" them.

I agree, but also wonder why some names that were common in the 80s don’t sound as generation-specific. For instance, I know some little girls now named Katie/Catherine, Sarah, and Emily. These were super popular when I was a kid (I’m mid-30s). These names are pretty classic, yes, but then why does another classic name like Rebecca feel 80s to me?

I think it might just be you because Rebecca sounds very classic to me, not 80s. Agree it was popular in the 80s like the others you mention, but it was not unpopular before that -- it was in the top 100 from like 1940 to 2000, and even now it's in the top 300 so not super out of favor. Emily is similar -- it got very popular starting in the 70s, but was top 300s all through the 20th century. Sarah even more so -- it's never been out of the top 100. Catherine/Katherine same deal, plus if you combine them it would be ranked even higher. Rachel is another name like this. Maybe less common now than in the 80s, but not exactly uncommon. Elizabeth. Caroline. Same deal. Simply never very unpopular.

Nicole, though, shot from the 800/900s in the 1950s to a top 100 name by the end of the 1960s, and then kept climbing. It's still not that uncommon (top 300s) but it spent far less time close to the top of the list than the ones in the last paragraph, so it feels more distinctly 70s/80s/90s to me. I don't know any Nicoles from my grandma's generation, but I know older women with all of the other names.

Lindsay is even more dramatic. As a girls name, it was in the 800s/900s for a few years in the 50s, then disappeared all through the 60s, then came back in 1974 (in the 600s) and was a top 40 name by the early 80s. And now it's back in the 800s. So it really feels like a 70s/80s name.

Every generation has these names. For my mom's generation, it was names like Linda, Peggy, Susan, Patricia. For my grandmother, names like Alice, Mae, Ruby, Vivian. For me, it's Jessica, Lindsay, Jennifer, Nicole. And for my kid it's probably going to be Sophia, Eleanor, Eva/Ava, Charlotte. These are all great names! But they are not "classics" the way Sarah, Emily, Catherine, or Elizabeth are.

Catherine and Elizabeth were two of the most commone girl names in Tudor England (and there was only a handful). Classic, for sure.

[Anonymous]

I like it spelled Lindsay

[Anonymous]

I absolutely love Lindsey/Lindsay! I would use it but it’s my first cousin’s name. I say use it if you like it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lindsay/Jennifer/Nicole are another generation or two away.

This.

-- a Jennifer

I went to school with 27 Jennifers.

[Anonymous]

I don't mind the name but I would assume it was after your sister who died or something like that. Seems like a very intentional choice to pick a name that was very popular not long ago but isn't now I guess is what I'm saying.

[Anonymous]

No.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don’t you think it lacks substance?

It’s somewhere between twee little girl and trashy teen.

Do you know how many people who frequent this board you've now insulted? Not my fault my parents loved the Bionic Woman.

[Anonymous]

I prefer the spelling Lindsay but I do think it was popular too recently. I also am not a fan of the name as a girl I knew with the name bullied me, and grew up to be one of those SAHMs who gets too much Botox and filler and spends all day posting on social media.