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Link

#1,579 in 2025Boys' name

The Roman settlement Lindum Colonia, through Lincoln

Link has been given to 2,689 babies in the U.S. since 1893. In 2025 it ranked #1,579 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 204 recorded.

Babies named Link, 2025

1 in 30,700

Link over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Link: meaning, origin, and history

The Roman settlement Lindum Colonia, through Lincoln

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Link means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Link is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Lincoln.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Link is pronounced /lɪŋk/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,689 boys were recorded with the name Link between 1893 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 204 in 2022; its best national rank was #979 in 1893.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,143 in 2020 to #1,579 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,322 in 2015 to #1,579 in 2025.

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 Link?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 30,700
108 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 15,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,579
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
21,278 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Link 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 2025 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 21,278 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Link. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Links were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Link was born before 2017 — so the typical Link is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
37.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,516
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 37.6% of all recorded uses (1,011).

Is Link 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
−159
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−436
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−257
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.81×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
52.9%
Peak was 2022 (204)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#979
1893

Spellings of Link

Link is not the most common spelling — Liam is, with 38.5% against Link's 0.29%.

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 Link is used

Across 2016–2025, Link was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 3,704 boys, against 1 in 14,280 across all states with data. It was least common in Maryland (1 in 50,000).

227 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 3,704
  2. 2Ohio1 in 7,143
  3. 3Missouri1 in 8,333
  4. 4Michigan1 in 10,000
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in 10,000
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 11,111
  7. 7California1 in 12,500
  8. 8Georgia1 in 12,500

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.

Link around the world

Where Link 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
    2013–2025
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • France
    2008–2025
    #4,305
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2008–2024
    #1,459
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1971–2013
    #499
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Link

People whose public names include Link, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Link in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Link. Linked forms have their own page here.

LincLincoln

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Link by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,579
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 436
Best rank ever
#979
1893
Peak year
2022
204 that year
First recorded
1893
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,689
Count in 2025
108

Names similar to Link

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

LinoLinusLinkinLinnLindenLindonLindaLindyLintonLinLinkenPinkLinzyLindellLinkonLinkynLinkolnLinhLincLinnieLindsayLindseyLinfordLindel

Names with a curve like Link

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Link, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

BastianThorinElonCedarDeckerNovaAlaricLevKilianKaceZeusKarsyn

Sibling names for Link

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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