Lindy (name)
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." 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."
Lindy was most popular in the year 1979, when it ranked 586th.
People
Given name
Women
- Lindy Booth, Canadian actress
- Lyndy or Lindy Brill, British actress and singer
- Lindy Burns, Australian presenter
- Lindy Davies, Australian actress, director and drama teacher
- Lindy DeKoven, American television executive
- Lindy Elkins-Tanton, American planetary scientist
- Lindy Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, British artist, conservationist and businesswoman
- Lindy Hemming, Welsh Oscar-winning costume designer
- Lindy Hou, Australian tandem cyclist and triathlete
- Lindy Kelly, New Zealand writer
- Lindy Leveau-Agricole, Seychellois javelin thrower
- Lindy Robbins, American songwriter
- Lindy Rodwell, South African zoologist and conservationist
- Lindy Vivas, American former volleyball player and coach
- Lindy Vopnfjörð, Canadian singer-songwriter
- Lindy West, American writer, feminist and editor
- Lindy Melissa Wiik, Norwegian footballer
- Lindy Wilson, South African politician
Men
- Lindy Berry, American college football and Canadian Football League quarterback
- Lindy Fralin, American guitar pickup manufacturer
- Lindy Kasperski, Canadian politician
- Lindy Miller, American professional golfer
- Lindy Pearson, American National Football League player
- Lindy Remigino, American sprinter, 1952 Olympic 100 m champion
- Lindy Ruff, Canadian National Hockey League coach and former player
Nickname
Women
- Lindy Boggs, American politician
- Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton, Australian wrongly convicted of murdering her daughter
- Lindy Cochran, American alpine skier
- Lindy Jenkins, a justice with the Supreme Court of Western Australia appointed in 2004
- Lindy Layton, British singer
- Lindy Morrison, Australian rock drummer
- Lindy Nelson-Carr, Australian former politician
Men
- Lindy Delapenha, Jamaican footballer and sports journalist
- Lindy Hood, American college basketball player
- Lindy Infante, American football player and coach
- Lindy McDaniel, American Major League Baseball relief pitcher
- Lucky Lindy Charles Lindbergh 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 ToylandLindy 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
- Lindy Lisson, wife of megachurch pastor, Lyle Lissons in The Righteous Gemstones