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Linc

Boys' name

The Roman settlement Lindum Colonia, through Lincoln

Linc has been given to 199 babies in the U.S. since 1956. 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 1964, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Linc, 2023

1 in 368,000

Linc 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Linc: meaning, origin, and history

The Roman settlement Lindum Colonia, through Lincoln

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Linc means

Linc belongs to the name family reached through Linc → Lincoln. Its meaning is “the Roman settlement Lindum Colonia”.

Origin, language, and formation

Linc is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lincoln.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 199 boys were recorded with the name Linc between 1956 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 21 in 1964; its best national rank was #1,773 in 1964.

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 Linc?

Linc had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
255,294 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Linc 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 2023 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 255,294 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Linc. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lincs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Linc was born before 1970 — so the typical Linc is around 55 today.

Median birth year
1970
About 55 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
41.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
16.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
199
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 41.7% of all recorded uses (83).

Is Linc 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 1964 (21)
Years since peak
61
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
54.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,773
1964

Spellings of Linc

Linc is not the most common spelling — Liam is, with 45.1% against Linc's 0.03%.

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 Linc is used

Across 1910–2025, Linc was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Linc has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Linc around the world

Where Linc 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.

  • South Australia
    1971–1982
    #424
    in 1982

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Linc 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
#1,773
1964
Peak year
1964
21 that year
First recorded
1956
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
199
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Linc

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

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Sibling names for Linc

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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