Fewer than five US boys were named Linwood in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #396, reached in 1945. The most boys given the name in a single year was 276, in 1948. For comparison, it was #6,557 in 2015 and #410 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Linwood in 143 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 12,781 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 2,316 babies named Linwood.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 88 US boys were named Linwood; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 16.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Lynwood (4,168 babies since 1880) and Lenwood (2,423 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lynnwood are summarised on this page.