Meaning not yet researched.
Link: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 108 in 2025. Its best rank was #980 in 1893.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #980 in 1893; #1,579 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Link in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,579 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1893, at #980.
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Link: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 108 boys in 2025. Peak: #980 in 1893 · most boys in one year: 204 (2022).
In 2025, 108 US boys were named Link, making it the 1,579th most common boys’ name of the year, down 159 places from #1,420 in 2024. That is 22 fewer than the 130 boys named Link in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #980, reached in 1893. The most boys given the name in a single year was 204, in 2022. For comparison, it was #1,322 in 2015 and #3,988 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Link in 91 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1893 with 6 babies. In all, 2,689 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,011 babies named Link.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,506 US boys were named Link; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 204. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,816 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Link ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #596 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Lincoln (106,968 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lynk are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Lynk (125).
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 Link in the open dataset we use.
Link is listed as a nickname for Lincoln.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 7 | #596 | #731 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,040 | — |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,080 | #1,159 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,087 | #1,038 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,355 | — |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,470 | — |
| California | 11 | #1,549 | #1,823 |
| Texas | 9 | #1,849 | #1,865 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 108 | #1,579 |
| 2024 | — | — | 130 | #1,420 |
| 2023 | — | — | 147 | #1,305 |
| 2022 | — | — | 204 | #1,075 |
| 2021 | — | — | 156 | #1,234 |
| 2020 | — | — | 171 | #1,143 |
| 2019 | — | — | 151 | #1,247 |
| 2018 | — | — | 158 | #1,197 |
| 2017 | — | — | 135 | #1,333 |
| 2016 | — | — | 146 | #1,257 |
| 2015 | — | — | 134 | #1,322 |
| 2014 | — | — | 95 | #1,636 |
| 2013 | — | — | 73 | #1,928 |
| 2012 | — | — | 52 | #2,436 |
| 2011 | — | — | 36 | #3,146 |
| 2010 | — | — | 31 | #3,502 |
| 2009 | — | — | 28 | #3,786 |
| 2008 | — | — | 31 | #3,536 |
| 2007 | — | — | 28 | #3,752 |
| 2006 | — | — | 21 | #4,446 |
| 2005 | — | — | 7 | #9,732 |
| 2004 | — | — | 15 | #5,397 |
| 2003 | — | — | 13 | #5,755 |
| 2002 | — | — | 8 | #8,146 |
| 2001 | — | — | 6 | #10,045 |
| 1998 | — | — | 5 | #10,630 |
| 1997 | — | — | 5 | #10,188 |
| 1994 | — | — | 7 | #7,446 |
| 1993 | — | — | 5 | #9,596 |
| 1992 | — | — | 6 | #8,041 |
| 1991 | — | — | 5 | #9,065 |
| 1989 | — | — | 5 | #8,707 |
| 1988 | — | — | 5 | #8,035 |
| 1986 | — | — | 7 | #5,701 |
| 1982 | — | — | 5 | #6,961 |
| 1981 | — | — | 8 | #4,786 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #6,859 |
| 1979 | — | — | 6 | #5,786 |
| 1978 | — | — | 11 | #3,529 |
| 1977 | — | — | 11 | #3,503 |
| 1976 | — | — | 9 | #3,886 |
| 1975 | — | — | 15 | #2,711 |
| 1974 | — | — | 12 | #3,061 |
| 1973 | — | — | 13 | #2,805 |
| 1972 | — | — | 17 | #2,298 |
| 1971 | — | — | 20 | #2,092 |
| 1970 | — | — | 24 | #1,827 |
| 1969 | — | — | 10 | #2,978 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,497 |
| 1967 | — | — | 7 | #3,433 |
| 1966 | — | — | 18 | #1,859 |
| 1965 | — | — | 11 | #2,559 |
| 1964 | — | — | 38 | #1,272 |
| 1963 | — | — | 29 | #1,472 |
| 1962 | — | — | 13 | #2,322 |
| 1961 | — | — | 16 | #2,111 |
| 1960 | — | — | 6 | #3,894 |
| 1959 | — | — | 11 | #2,608 |
| 1958 | — | — | 9 | #2,941 |
| 1957 | — | — | 11 | #2,579 |
| 1956 | — | — | 5 | #4,251 |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #4,174 |
| 1954 | — | — | 9 | #2,867 |
| 1953 | — | — | 7 | #3,294 |
| 1952 | — | — | 11 | #2,449 |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #3,988 |
| 1949 | — | — | 15 | #1,994 |
| 1946 | — | — | 8 | #2,820 |
| 1945 | — | — | 7 | #2,895 |
| 1942 | — | — | 5 | #3,857 |
| 1941 | — | — | 5 | #3,806 |
| 1937 | — | — | 6 | #3,370 |
| 1931 | — | — | 6 | #3,610 |
| 1930 | — | — | 6 | #3,838 |
| 1928 | — | — | 7 | #3,570 |
| 1927 | — | — | 9 | #3,051 |
| 1926 | — | — | 5 | #4,558 |
| 1925 | — | — | 7 | #3,597 |
| 1924 | — | — | 8 | #3,393 |
| 1921 | — | — | 7 | #3,732 |
| 1920 | — | — | 6 | #4,087 |
| 1919 | — | — | 7 | #3,602 |
| 1917 | — | — | 8 | #3,087 |
| 1916 | — | — | 7 | #3,370 |
| 1915 | — | — | 7 | #3,252 |
| 1914 | — | — | 8 | #2,560 |
| 1913 | — | — | 5 | #3,077 |
| 1912 | — | — | 7 | #2,160 |
| 1911 | — | — | 6 | #1,654 |
| 1909 | — | — | 5 | #1,599 |
| 1893 | — | — | 6 | #980 |
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).