Linford
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Linford has been given to 779 babies in the U.S. since 1896. 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 1921, with 20 recorded.
Babies named Linford, 2019
1 in 694,000
Linford over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Linford?
Linford had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2019
- 1 in 694,000
- 5 of 3,472,229 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 359,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2019
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 481,354 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Linford sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Linford. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Linfords were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Linford was born before 1942 — so the typical Linford is around 83 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 18.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 7.4%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 312
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 18.5% of all recorded uses (144).
Is Linford 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 1921 (20)
- Years since peak
- 104
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 12.3% average annual change
Spellings of Linford
Linford is not the most common spelling — Clifford is, with 76.4% against Linford's 0.32%.
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 Linford is used
Across 1910–2025, Linford was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 64,593 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
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. Linford has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Linford around the world
Where Linford 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 & Wales1996–1998#2,419in 1998
- France1995–1995#2,518in 1995
- South Australia1950–1955#392in 1955
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Linford by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Linford
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Linford
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.