Lindy (name) explained

Lindy is a unisex given name and a nickname. As a female given name, it is a variant of names like Linda, Belinda, and Melinda, and the meaning of Lindy is "beautiful; pretty; sweet."^[1] As a male name, it is a variant of names such as Lindsay and Lyndon, and the meaning is "linden tree mountain; Lincoln's marsh; island of linden trees; linden tree hill."^[2]

Lindy was most popular in the year 1979, when it ranked 586th.^[3]

People

Given name

Women

• Lindy Booth (born 1979), Canadian actress
• Lyndy or Lindy Brill (born 1963), British actress and singer
• Lindy Burns, Australian presenter
• Lindy Davies (born 1946), Australian actress, director and drama teacher
• Lindy DeKoven, American television executive
• Lindy Elkins-Tanton, American planetary scientist
• Lindy Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood (1941–2020), British artist, conservationist and businesswoman
• Lindy Hemming (born 1948), Welsh Oscar-winning costume designer
• Lindy Hou (born 1960), Australian tandem cyclist and triathlete
• Lindy Kelly (born 1952), New Zealand writer
• Lindy Leveau-Agricole (born 1978), Seychellois javelin thrower
• Lindy Robbins, American songwriter
• Lindy Rodwell (born 1962), South African zoologist and conservationist
• Lindy Vivas, American former volleyball player and coach
• Lindy Vopnfjörð (born 1972), Canadian singer-songwriter
• Lindy West (born 1982), American writer, feminist and editor
• Lindy Melissa Wiik (born 1985), Norwegian footballer
• Lindy Wilson, South African politician

Men

• Lindy Berry (1927-2014), American college football and Canadian Football League quarterback
• Lindy Fralin, American guitar pickup manufacturer
• Lindy Kasperski (1950–2014), Canadian politician
• Lindy Miller (born 1956), American professional golfer
• Lindy Pearson (1929–2011), American National Football League player
• Lindy Remigino (1931–2018), American sprinter, 1952 Olympic 100 m champion
• Lindy Ruff (born 1960), Canadian National Hockey League coach and former player

Nickname

Women

• Lindy Boggs (1916–2013), American politician
• Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton (born 1948), Australian wrongly convicted of murdering her daughter
• Lindy Cochran (born 1953), American alpine skier
• Lindy Jenkins (born 1959), a justice with the Supreme Court of Western Australia appointed in 2004
• Lindy Layton (born 1970), British singer
• Lindy Morrison (born 1951), Australian rock drummer
• Lindy Nelson-Carr (born 1952), Australian former politician

Men

• Lindy Delapenha (1927–2017), Jamaican footballer and sports journalist
• Lindy Hood (1907–1972), American college basketball player
• Lindy Infante (1940–2015), American football player and coach
• Lindy McDaniel (1935–2020), American Major League Baseball relief pitcher
• Lucky Lindy Charles Lindbergh^[4] (1902-1974) American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, and activist

Fictional characters

• Lindy, from Alex Flinn's novel Beastly and the film of the same name
• Lindy Karsten, from CrossGen Entertainment's Sigilverse
• Lindy, a fairy character from Noddy in Toyland
• Lindy Sampson, the protagonist in R. L. Stine's novel Eye Candy and main character in the hit MTV television series Eye Candy
• Lindy Watson, from Disney Channel's I Didn't Do It

Notes and References

1. http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/0/Lindy "Girl's Names: Lindy."
2. http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/1/Lindy "Boy's Names: Lindy."
3. http://www.babynames.com/name/LINDY "Origin and Meaning of the Name Lindy."
4. [Charles Lindbergh]