Entry № 5954 · Scottish origin

Lindsay Lindsay — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ LIN-zee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Scottish
Meaning
"Wetland with linden trees (Lindsay Lohan + Lindsay Davenport)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Scottish)

A name that means "wetland with linden trees (lindsay lohan + lindsay davenport)".

Lindsay is from the Scottish surname / Old English Lindesege — lind ("linden tree, lime tree") + eg ("island, wetland"). Lindsey Graham is male. The name Lindsay/Lindsey peaked in the early 1980s.

Wetland with linden trees.

The name in its native script.

Lindsay
Transliteration
Lindsay
Pronunciation
/ ˈlɪn.zi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Lindsay stands.

Lindsay does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Lindsays before her.

Real people
Lindsay Lohan
American actress.
born 1986
Lindsay Davenport
American tennis World No. 1.
born 1976
Lindsay Wagner
American Emmy actress.
born 1949
In fiction
Lindsay
Various American TV.

Names connected to Lindsay.

The number behind Lindsay.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lindsay reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.