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Lynix

Gender
Mostly boys
Say it
LIN-iks
Origin
Modern
US rank, 2025
#6,799 for boys

Lynix is a name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 6,799th for boys in the US (12 babies).

Where does Lynix come from?

Modern: probably from lynx, the wild cat, with the ending -ix

Is Lynix a girl's or a boy's name?

In recent years, Lynix has been given to girls and boys, mostly boys. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls and 12 boys in the US.

How popular is Lynix in the US?

Rank in 2025
#6,799among boys
Babies in 2025
12about 1 in 140,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 12 boys in the US were named Lynix, making it the 6,799th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,062nd. Its busiest year was 2023, with 13 boys. It first appears in the records in 2015. 6 girls were also named Lynix in 2025 (13,203rd for girls).

Half of all the boys named Lynix in the US since 1880 were born between 2018 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 52 boys in the US were given Lynix or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,156, up from #6,799 for this spelling alone.

2015Busiest: 13 in 20232025
Lynix in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202512#6,799
20247#9,888
202313#6,512
202212#6,822
202112#6,693
20209#8,062
20190–
20186#10,754
20177#9,691
20168#8,811
20157#9,562

Names like Lynix

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Lynix

Names related to Lynix

More Modern names

Every Modern name

Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Lynix: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/lynix, updated 20 October 2026.