Meaning not yet researched.
Linh: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 16 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,714 in 1984.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,714 in 1984; #7,008 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Linh in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,008 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1984, at #1,714.
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Linh: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 16 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,714 in 1984 · most girls in one year: 64 (1987).
In 2025, 16 US girls were named Linh, making it the 7,008th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,229 places from #8,237 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 13 girls named Linh in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,714, reached in 1984. The most girls given the name in a single year was 64, in 1987. For comparison, it was #9,276 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Linh in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #2,172, reached in 1981. That year also had the most boys given the name: 24. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Linh in 51 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 11 babies. In all, 1,732 US babies have been given the name, 88% of them girls and 12% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 698 babies named Linh.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 138 US girls were named Linh; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 20. In 2025 that was about 1 in 100,454 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Lynn (234,778 babies since 1880), Lyn (8,781 babies since 1880), Lian (5,705 babies since 1880) and Len (4,616 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.
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 Linh 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 | 16 | #7,008 | — | — |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,237 | — | — |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,608 | — | — |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,314 | — | — |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,863 | — | — |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,423 | — | — |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,884 | — | — |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,157 | — | — |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,111 | — | — |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,457 | — | — |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,276 | — | — |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,108 | — | — |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,388 | — | — |
| 2012 | 29 | #4,918 | — | — |
| 2011 | 22 | #6,057 | — | — |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,198 | — | — |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,550 | — | — |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,272 | — | — |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,322 | — | — |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,643 | — | — |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,353 | — | — |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,877 | — | — |
| 2003 | 25 | #5,036 | — | — |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,561 | — | — |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,104 | — | — |
| 2000 | 26 | #4,609 | — | — |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,683 | — | — |
| 1998 | 29 | #3,983 | — | — |
| 1997 | 37 | #3,200 | — | — |
| 1996 | 42 | #2,877 | — | — |
| 1995 | 42 | #2,864 | 10 | #5,753 |
| 1994 | 41 | #2,915 | 7 | #7,445 |
| 1993 | 44 | #2,751 | 5 | #9,595 |
| 1992 | 48 | #2,595 | 9 | #5,940 |
| 1991 | 62 | #2,149 | 17 | #3,566 |
| 1990 | 42 | #2,775 | 9 | #5,637 |
| 1989 | 51 | #2,324 | 9 | #5,429 |
| 1988 | 44 | #2,471 | 12 | #4,073 |
| 1987 | 64 | #1,825 | 11 | #4,133 |
| 1986 | 57 | #1,943 | 11 | #4,024 |
| 1985 | 62 | #1,824 | 9 | #4,550 |
| 1984 | 64 | #1,714 | 23 | #2,268 |
| 1983 | 61 | #1,764 | 14 | #3,168 |
| 1982 | 61 | #1,796 | 18 | #2,658 |
| 1981 | 54 | #1,974 | 24 | #2,172 |
| 1980 | 40 | #2,416 | 9 | #4,363 |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,289 | — | — |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,570 | 6 | #5,501 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,387 | — | — |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,742 | 5 | #6,128 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,593 | 5 | #5,967 |
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).