Lynnley
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- LIN-lee
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #7,489 for girls
Lynnley is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “flax or lime-tree clearing”. In 2025 it ranked 7,489th for girls in the US (14 babies).
What does Lynnley mean?
English: spelling of Lynley; English place-name surname
“flax or lime-tree clearing”
English surname; Inspector Lynley is the aristocratic detective of Elizabeth George's crime novels.
Meaning borrowed from Lynley.
Is Lynnley a girl's or a boy's name?
Lynnley is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 14 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Lynnley in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 7,489th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 14 about 1 in 110,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 14 girls in the US were named Lynnley, making it the 7,489th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 2024, with 17 girls. It first appears in the records in 2012.
Half of all the girls named Lynnley in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 370 girls in the US were given Lynnley or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #737, up from #7,489 for this spelling alone.
Lynnley in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,489 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,639 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,536 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,459 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,712 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,142 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,772 |
| 2016 | 12 | #8,872 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,143 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,031 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,628 |
Nicknames for Lynnley
Names like Lynnley
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kenley, Wrenley, Sevyn, Finley, Brynlee, Briar, Rynlee, Lakelynn, Londyn, Lennon, Kinley, Lainey
Other spellings of Lynnley
Lynlee, Lynnlee, Linley, Lynleigh, Lynnleigh, Lynley, Linlee
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie
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, “Lynnley: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/lynnley, updated 20 October 2026.