Is Lynn a male or female name?
Lynn is predominantly associated with female records in the available name data. Without a country hint, NameGender returns female at 79%, based on 245,766 observations.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- female
- Probability
- 79%
- Sample size
- 245,766
- Confidence
- high
Lynn by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | female | 78% | 234,684 | ssa |
| England and Wales GB | female | 100% | 3,539 | nrs |
| Switzerland CH | female | 99% | 3,237 | bfs |
| France FR | female | 100% | 1,755 | insee |
| Ireland IE | female | 100% | 1,398 | cso |
| Canada CA | female | 100% | 714 | statcan |
| Spain ES | female | 100% | 290 | ine |
| Austria AT | female | 100% | 98 | statat |
| Poland PL | female | 94% | 51 | pesel |
Attested in 63 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
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Lynn over time
In the United States, 5.2% of the babies named Lynn in the 1880s were girls, against 80.2% in the 2020s. The name has changed sides over time, so the answer depends on when a person was born. In France, 100% of the babies named Lynn in the 2000s were girls, against 100% in the 2020s.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5% | 287 | — | |
| 1890s | 12% | 394 | — | |
| 1900s | 23% | 535 | — | |
| 1910s | 16% | 2,830 | — | |
| 1920s | 18% | 4,992 | — | |
| 1930s | 40% | 10,025 | — | |
| 1940s | 67% | 43,587 | — | |
| 1950s | 83% | 79,819 | — | |
| 1960s | 89% | 58,299 | — | |
| 1970s | 88% | 19,937 | — | |
| 1980s | 86% | 7,901 | — | |
| 1990s | 83% | 2,975 | — | |
| 2000s | 84% | 1,597 | 100% | 470 |
| 2010s | 83% | 1,117 | 100% | 710 |
| 2020s | 80% | 389 | 100% | 385 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Lynn with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Lynn&country=US" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Lynn
Is Lynn a male or female name?
Lynn is predominantly associated with female records in the available name data. Without a country hint, NameGender returns female at 79%, based on 245,766 observations.
Why can the result for Lynn change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Lynn identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.