Meaning not yet researched.
Lyncoln: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,655 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,655 in 2018; #10,288 in 2025. About 58% of babies named Lyncoln in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,288 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #2,655.
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Lyncoln: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,655 in 2018 · most boys in one year: 47 (2018).
In 2025, 7 US boys were named Lyncoln, making it the 10,288th most common boys’ name of the year, down 4,217 places from #6,071 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 15 boys named Lyncoln in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,655, reached in 2018. That year also had the most boys given the name: 47. For comparison, it was #2,892 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Lyncoln, making it the 16,341st most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #5,397, reached in 2015. That year also had the most girls given the name: 25. For comparison, it was #5,397 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lyncoln in 19 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2007 with 12 babies. In all, 651 US babies have been given the name, 30% of them girls and 70% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 426 babies named Lyncoln.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 297 US boys were named Lyncoln; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 47. In 2025 that was about 1 in 244,011 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Lincoln (106,968 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 Lyncoln 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 | 5 | #16,341 | 7 | #10,288 |
| 2024 | — | — | 15 | #6,071 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,662 | 14 | #6,384 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,408 | 24 | #4,383 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,872 | 34 | #3,395 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,430 | 41 | #2,908 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,421 | 35 | #3,312 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,687 | 47 | #2,655 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,195 | 39 | #3,048 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,461 | 41 | #2,916 |
| 2015 | 25 | #5,397 | 41 | #2,892 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,335 | 25 | #4,085 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,859 | 18 | #5,097 |
| 2012 | — | — | 18 | #5,172 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,221 | 19 | #4,927 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,382 | 10 | #7,931 |
| 2009 | — | — | 9 | #8,738 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,331 | 11 | #7,521 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,360 | 7 | #10,463 |
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).