Meaning not yet researched.
Lin: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,667 in 1952.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,667 in 1952; #12,636 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lin in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,636 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1952, at #1,667.
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Lin: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,667 in 1952 · most girls in one year: 35 (1960).
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Lin, making it the 12,636th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,886 places from #14,522 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 6 girls named Lin in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,667, reached in 1952. The most girls given the name in a single year was 35, in 1960. For comparison, it was #15,624 in 2015 and #2,220 in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Lin in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #1,233, reached in 1898. The most boys given the name in a single year was 28, in 1959. For comparison, it was #11,560 in 2015 and #1,857 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lin in 109 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1898 with 5 babies. In all, 1,897 US babies have been given the name, 55% of them girls and 45% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 474 babies named Lin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 75 US girls were named Lin; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 13. In 2025 that was about 1 in 229,610 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Lina (19,494 babies since 1880), Lyn (8,781 babies since 1880), Linn (2,294 babies since 1880) and Lynn (234,778 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Chinese. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Lin in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,636 | — | — |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,522 | 5 | #13,453 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,605 | 9 | #8,648 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,112 | 5 | #13,553 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,955 | 6 | #11,590 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,696 | — | — |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,415 | — | — |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,121 | — | — |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,369 | — | — |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,411 | 5 | #13,424 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,624 | 6 | #11,560 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,306 | 5 | #13,272 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,038 | 7 | #10,310 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,932 | 5 | #13,443 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,420 | 8 | #9,279 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,978 | 9 | #8,529 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,148 | 6 | #11,891 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,289 | 8 | #9,525 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,544 | — | — |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,010 | 6 | #11,498 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,351 | — | — |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,268 | 6 | #10,812 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,777 | — | — |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,033 | — | — |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,520 | 6 | #10,044 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,589 | — | — |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,208 | — | — |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,405 | — | — |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,536 | — | — |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,777 | — | — |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,459 | — | — |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,254 | — | — |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,824 | — | — |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,041 | — | — |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,435 | — | — |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,254 | 8 | #6,185 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,703 | 5 | #8,702 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,881 | 5 | #8,033 |
| 1987 | — | — | 6 | #6,621 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,462 | 6 | #6,402 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,284 | 5 | #7,153 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,832 | — | — |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,482 | — | — |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,643 | — | — |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,639 | 5 | #6,878 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,870 | 5 | #6,856 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,562 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,755 | — | — |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,590 | 6 | #5,186 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,553 | 7 | #4,440 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,973 | 7 | #4,331 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,795 | — | — |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,800 | 6 | #4,711 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,575 | 6 | #4,532 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,892 | 11 | #2,791 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,365 | 13 | #2,401 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,965 | 12 | #2,423 |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,467 | 15 | #2,101 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,086 | 9 | #2,906 |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,444 | 12 | #2,497 |
| 1963 | 21 | #2,744 | 15 | #2,166 |
| 1962 | 22 | #2,635 | 18 | #1,933 |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,408 | 21 | #1,801 |
| 1960 | 35 | #1,940 | 16 | #2,091 |
| 1959 | 31 | #2,039 | 28 | #1,517 |
| 1958 | 21 | #2,542 | 18 | #1,934 |
| 1957 | 34 | #1,888 | 16 | #2,064 |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,678 | 24 | #1,627 |
| 1955 | 31 | #1,930 | 20 | #1,762 |
| 1954 | 28 | #2,004 | 17 | #1,935 |
| 1953 | 27 | #1,992 | 27 | #1,469 |
| 1952 | 35 | #1,667 | 18 | #1,834 |
| 1951 | 23 | #2,090 | 20 | #1,711 |
| 1950 | 20 | #2,220 | 17 | #1,857 |
| 1949 | 20 | #2,249 | 15 | #1,992 |
| 1948 | 23 | #2,049 | 19 | #1,742 |
| 1947 | 19 | #2,321 | 19 | #1,763 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,816 | 14 | #1,996 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,859 | 16 | #1,738 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,708 | 15 | #1,858 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,676 | 19 | #1,676 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,324 | 17 | #1,774 |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,605 | 9 | #2,581 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,872 | 10 | #2,418 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,047 | 7 | #3,002 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,695 | — | — |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,645 | 5 | #3,827 |
| 1936 | — | — | 8 | #2,763 |
| 1935 | — | — | 6 | #3,478 |
| 1934 | — | — | 6 | #3,520 |
| 1933 | — | — | 8 | #2,885 |
| 1932 | — | — | 11 | #2,403 |
| 1931 | — | — | 5 | #4,100 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,938 | 10 | #2,709 |
| 1929 | — | — | 7 | #3,425 |
| 1928 | — | — | 9 | #2,975 |
| 1927 | — | — | 9 | #3,049 |
| 1926 | — | — | 8 | #3,282 |
| 1925 | — | — | 11 | #2,683 |
| 1924 | — | — | 7 | #3,699 |
| 1923 | — | — | 12 | #2,540 |
| 1922 | — | — | 7 | #3,722 |
| 1921 | — | — | 5 | #4,702 |
| 1919 | — | — | 9 | #3,022 |
| 1918 | — | — | 5 | #4,534 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,982 | 6 | #3,798 |
| 1916 | — | — | 7 | #3,369 |
| 1913 | — | — | 5 | #3,075 |
| 1898 | — | — | 5 | #1,233 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).