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Lino

#2,411 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly flax, through Linus

Lino has been given to 4,194 babies in the U.S. since 1904. In 2025 it ranked #2,411 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 70 recorded.

Babies named Lino, 2025

1 in 58,200

Lino over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lino: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly flax, through Linus

Ancient Greek

What Lino means

Lino belongs to the name family reached through Lino → Linus → Λῖνος. Its meaning is “flax”.

Origin, language, and formation

Lino is used in Basque, Esperanto and Italian. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Linus and Λῖνος.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Basque, Lino is pronounced /lino/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,188 boys were recorded with the name Lino between 1904 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 70 in 2003; its best national rank was #1,118 in 1966.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,639 in 2020 to #2,411 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,945 in 2015 to #2,411 in 2025.

In the United States, 6 girls were recorded with the name Lino between 2015 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2015; its best national rank was #15,620 in 2015.

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 Lino?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 58,200
57 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 30,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,411
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
40,315 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lino 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 40,315 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lino. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Linos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lino was born before 1985 — so the typical Lino is around 40 today.

Median birth year
1985
About 40 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
14.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
31.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,333
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 14.2% of all recorded uses (593).

Is Lino 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
−249
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+228
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+534
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.43×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
81.4%
Peak was 2003 (70)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,118
1966

Spellings of Lino

Lino is not the most common spelling — Liam is, with 33.0% against Lino's 0.38%.

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 Lino is used

Across 1910–2025, Lino was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 28,571 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 12,500
  2. 2California1 in 16,667
  3. 3Arizona1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 100,000
  5. 5New Mexico1 in 100,000
  6. 6New York1 in 100,000
  7. 7Florida1 in —
  8. 8Virginia1 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. Lino has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Lino around the world

Where Lino 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
    2005–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    1908–2025
    #143
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2014–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1944–2004
    #589
    in 2004

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 Lino

People whose public names include Lino, 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.

Lino in other languages

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

Laudelino

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

Lino by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,411
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 228
Best rank ever
#1,118
1966
Peak year
2003
70 that year
First recorded
1904
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,188
Count in 2025
57

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#15,620
2015
Peak year
2015
6 that year
First recorded
2015
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lino

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

LinkLinusLindenNinoTinoDinoLindaLinkinLinnGinoLindonLindyGabinoLintonMarinoSabinoLinGavinoLinkenLindsayKinoLinzyLindellDelfino

Names with a curve like Lino

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

AbelardoGeronimoAugustinPascualCreightonMarcelinoDemetrioMannyWillyClementeFerminBurke

Sibling names for Lino

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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