Can you name the 5 most popular names containing 'lyn' for USA baby girls in the given years?

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These are the 5 most popular girls' names containing 'lyn' for the given year! The gray column is the number of babies given that name that year.
Source: SSA Popular Baby Names

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1900
1116
186
39
39
37

1910
3776
331
151
65
64

1920
13836
1555
756
522
301

1930
9529
9278
3723
959
667

1940
12658
8699
4984
1265
1223

1950
15595
9287
5023
4281
3295

1960
9414
6851
4067
3223
2554

1970
4521
3263
1466
1255
1223

1980
1927
1694
1036
1015
860

1990
4485
4312
2155
1713
1584

2000
8757
5501
2835
2744
2684

2010
6068
5802
3956
3593
3264

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	NvjdsIsSmart:	Sep 4th, 2011 at 16:24 GMT		4 points
	Clever quiz!

	aznemesis:	Sep 4th, 2011 at 17:01 GMT		13 points
	I was kind of surprised not to see Lynette make it even once. I love name quizzes. Great job. I do think you'll get tons of complaints about "too much time." Frankly, I don't care, but a lot of people seem hung up on that. Since so many of the answers appear multiple times, 10 minutes is going to seem like a lot to those people whose personal feelings of worth are overly dependent on out-doing others on Internet quizzes. Cue the flood of comments from people thinking it's clever or original to rank on the names parents give to their children. Three...two...one...

	Jerdoggiedog:	Sep 4th, 2011 at 17:23 GMT		22 points
	I dislike geographical names in general, but Brooklyn? Why not just name the kid Staten Island?

	flixuk:	Sep 4th, 2011 at 17:41 GMT		10 points
	What about King Henry VIII's 2nd wife, Amberlyn? And I'm sure Captain Corelli played Amandalyn. Oh well, it's almost the time of year for Christmas Carolyn.

	InsertCleverName:	Sep 4th, 2011 at 17:45 GMT		-2 points
	Looking at the 1990s and 2000s, well, at least parents were creative and original with their spelling.

	LyricMaster:	Sep 4th, 2011 at 18:18 GMT		3 points
	Never realized how many names end in 'lyn'

	Bobman1:	Sep 4th, 2011 at 18:27 GMT		6 points
	Ugh, and in the next decade, will there be several more ways to spell something that sounds like Kaitlyn so they fill the top five completely? @Jerdoggiedog, Staten Island sounds better than The Bronx. @flixuk, yo uhad me rolling--I actually tried Amberlyn, just in case, before I read your comment. Finally, I hope whoever named their kid Ethelyn was a petrochemist.

	BiloxiSean:	Sep 4th, 2011 at 18:52 GMT		7 points
	Nothing says suburban sprawl like a girl names katilyn.

	steeltown:	Sep 4th, 2011 at 19:14 GMT		8 points
	Let me introduce my daughters: Ethelene Glycol (Ethelyn is just, so, 1910, y'know), and our youngest, Brooklyn Heights. If we have another we're going to name her after one of the Monsanto seed strains. I here it's going to be the next big trend!

	thewildboo:	Sep 4th, 2011 at 19:50 GMT		12 points
	I got all the actual, you know, names. Which got me to 50%.

	zalkon2004:	Sep 4th, 2011 at 20:05 GMT		6 points
	kinda surprised to not see Sherilyn/Cherilyn..not as surprised to not see some of the other crazy things i typed in (Mabelyn, Ritalyn, Lynnalyn)

	debbiedoesnothin:	Sep 4th, 2011 at 20:08 GMT		7 points
	@Jerdoggiedog: That would be Staten Islynn, thank you very much. Seriously though, there are girls named Ireland (including Kim Basinger & Alec Baldwin's daughter) and now people are starting to spell that Irelyn.

	pete32782:	Sep 4th, 2011 at 20:17 GMT		19 points
	"My girlfriend's name is Lynn, she spells her name l-y-n-n. My old girlfriend's name is Lyn too, but she spells her name l-y-n. Sometimes I call my new girlfriend by my old girlfriend's name, and she can tell because I don't say 'nn' as long." - Mitch Hedberg

	Razorblade:	Sep 4th, 2011 at 20:26 GMT		20 points
	I tried Lynyrd

	gwukelic:	Sep 4th, 2011 at 20:46 GMT		5 points
	Congratulations nightfloat on your first published Sporcle quiz! I hope it's as exciting to see for you as it was when I saw my first published quiz. Good work, and I hope to see many more to come.

	ari18:	Sep 4th, 2011 at 22:43 GMT		8 points
	I was surprised not to see any form of "Rosalynn." That seems like such a common name. Oh well. And there was no way I was gonna try multiple forms of the same name like Caitlyn/Kaitlyn/Katelyn...

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	mewpercat:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 03:24 GMT		2 points
	How did I forget Evelyn??? I've got a friend named that and she's going to murder me for forgetting her name.

	nightfloat:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 08:21 GMT		3 points
	@gwukelic: Thanks! I was pretty surprised it got published. On the down side, I have to watch the rating of the quiz plummet as it's exposed to lots of name-quiz-haters. Oh well.

	benwc97:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 12:53 GMT		9 points
	What? no Penicillyn? or Amoxicillyn? Pity... that's an untapped "lyn" vein

	TessSGS:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 13:09 GMT		-1 points
	Ugh, there are some terrible abortions of names there, especially since the 1980s.

	happypenguin:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 17:54 GMT		1 point
	@ 1st i though that it was only names that ended in lyn so i missed those starting with it

	eab21:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 21:30 GMT		0 points
	@Jerdoggiedog: Do you know who Brooklyn Decker is? If not, here: {http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Decker}. Might want to take that back.

	eyeluvdogz:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 22:25 GMT		0 points
	my name isn't on here sad face

	omnipotent1:	Sep 5th, 2011 at 23:39 GMT		3 points
	I've seen kids named Brooklyn and Manhattan. As of yet, no Bronx, Staten Island or Queens. I'm surprised how popular a name Jocelyn has become. For the longest time the only one I knew of who had that name was my niece, and now I see it quite often. Was there someone famous named Jocelyn that I failed to notice?

	dollymix:	Sep 6th, 2011 at 17:18 GMT		5 points
	Jocelyn became big around the same time as Ashley, both belonging to the category of "British mens' names with y's in them that eventually became American girls' names."

	Starchild:	Sep 6th, 2011 at 21:40 GMT		2 points
	Jacquelyn? Really? I've NEVER seen it spelled that way, always with -line. Same with Madelyn.

	munga:	Sep 7th, 2011 at 16:07 GMT		3 points
	good quiz, dumb names

	omnipotent1:	Sep 8th, 2011 at 01:20 GMT		2 points
	dollymix, Jocelyn is actually a traditional french name, for both men and women (for women it's typically spelled Jocelyne, which is how my niece now spells her name). But I didn't realize Jocelyn had become a popular male name in Britain.

	CaptHayfever:	Nov 16th, 2011 at 06:54 GMT		0 points
	Come on, how many ways do I have to spell the same freaking name to get all of it? (Never mind Caitlins or Kaitlins or...)

	ekb12345:	Jun 1st, 2012 at 01:17 GMT		3 points
	no sign of the elusive Veralynn. Oh well. We'll meet again.

	mockingjay11:	Jan 1st, 2013 at 19:02 GMT		1 point
	Damn you,Gwendolyn & Jaclyn!The only 2 I missed. I tried some really crazy names though;Helyna(Helen),Ellyn(Ellen),and Elyna[Elena]