Meaning not yet researched.
Linkin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 103 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,062 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,062 in 2018; #1,642 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Linkin in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,642 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #1,062.
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Linkin: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 103 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,062 in 2018 · most boys in one year: 191 (2018).
In 2025, 103 US boys were named Linkin, making it the 1,642nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 117 places from #1,759 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 94 boys named Linkin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,062, reached in 2018. That year also had the most boys given the name: 191. For comparison, it was #1,712 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Linkin in 25 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2001 with 6 babies. In all, 2,187 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,111 babies named Linkin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,265 US boys were named Linkin; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 191. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,583 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Linkin ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #671 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Linken, Linkyn and Linkon are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Linken (469), Linkyn (394), Linkon (305), Lynkin (184), Lynken (92), Lincon (90), Lynkon (63), Linkynn (5).
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 Linkin in the open dataset we use.
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 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 6 | #671 | — |
| Minnesota | 6 | #767 | — |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #850 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,194 | #1,320 |
| Texas | 10 | #1,714 | #1,504 |
| New York | 5 | #1,933 | — |
| California | 5 | #2,663 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 103 | #1,642 |
| 2024 | — | — | 94 | #1,759 |
| 2023 | — | — | 115 | #1,534 |
| 2022 | — | — | 105 | #1,646 |
| 2021 | — | — | 125 | #1,447 |
| 2020 | — | — | 139 | #1,304 |
| 2019 | — | — | 139 | #1,318 |
| 2018 | — | — | 191 | #1,062 |
| 2017 | — | — | 141 | #1,290 |
| 2016 | — | — | 113 | #1,509 |
| 2015 | — | — | 91 | #1,712 |
| 2014 | — | — | 92 | #1,676 |
| 2013 | — | — | 87 | #1,703 |
| 2012 | — | — | 88 | #1,724 |
| 2011 | — | — | 79 | #1,818 |
| 2010 | — | — | 90 | #1,706 |
| 2009 | — | — | 97 | #1,634 |
| 2008 | — | — | 96 | #1,626 |
| 2007 | — | — | 76 | #1,886 |
| 2006 | — | — | 43 | #2,723 |
| 2005 | — | — | 22 | #4,140 |
| 2004 | — | — | 21 | #4,205 |
| 2003 | — | — | 16 | #4,952 |
| 2002 | — | — | 18 | #4,422 |
| 2001 | — | — | 6 | #10,046 |
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).