Given name & surname
Lynnwood
“roaring stream, waterfall”
Lynnwood is a surname from Old English.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Lynnwood goes back to Old English hlynn, meaning “roaring stream, waterfall.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old English hlynn (“roaring stream, waterfall”), from Old English wudu (“woods, forest”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1926. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Lynnwood through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 264
- 264 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1954
- 17 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1971. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 17 in 1954. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 222 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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