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Linas

Boys' name

Form of Linus

Linas has been given to 117 babies in the U.S. since 1951. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1957, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Linas, 1971

1 in 686,000

Linas over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Linas: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Linus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Linas means

Linas is a form of Linus.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Linas is used in Lithuanian.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Linas → Linus → Linus → Λῖνος. The family’s proposed meaning is “flax”, recorded in Ancient Greek with the source elements línon.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Linus.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Lithuanian, Linas is pronounced [ˈlʲɪnɐs].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 117 boys were recorded with the name Linas between 1951 and 1971. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1957; its best national rank was #2,334 in 1957.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Linas?

Linas had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1971, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1971
1 in 686,000
5 of 3,432,187 births
Among boys only
1 in 354,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1971
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
475,803 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Linas sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1971 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 475,803 children born in 1971 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Linas. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Linass were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Linas was born before 1961 — so the typical Linas is around 64 today.

Median birth year
1961
About 64 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
51.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
117
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 51.3% of all recorded uses (60).

Is Linas rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1957 (13)
Years since peak
68
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,334
1957

Spellings of Linas

Linas is not the most common spelling — Liam is, with 35.5% against Linas's 0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Linas is used

Across 1910–2025, Linas was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 258,620 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Linas has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Linas around the world

Where Linas ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2007–2021
    #3,990
    in 2021
  • Norway
    1880–2018
    #471
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1957–1988
    #476
    in 1988

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Linas by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,334
1957
Peak year
1957
13 that year
First recorded
1951
Last recorded
1971
All-time count
117
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Linas

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Linas

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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