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Linton

Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Linton has been given to 2,360 babies in the U.S. since 1883. 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 1922, with 50 recorded.

Babies named Linton, 2023

1 in 552,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Linton: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Linton means

Linton is a given name.

The naming story behind Linton

Wikidata records Linton as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q51577071, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,360 boys were recorded with the name Linton between 1883 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 50 in 1922; its best national rank was #606 in 1889.

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.

How common is Linton?

Linton 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 552,000
6 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
382,940 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Linton 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 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Linton. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lintons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Linton was born before 1946 — so the typical Linton is around 79 today.

Median birth year
1946
About 79 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
15.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,008
People you could plausibly meet
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1940s — 15.5% of all recorded uses (365).

Is Linton 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 1922 (50)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#606
1889

Spellings of Linton

Linton is not the most common spelling — Landon is, with 23.7% against Linton's 0.30%.

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 Linton is used

Across 1910–2025, Linton was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 10,000 boys, against 1 in 37,553 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 10,000
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 20,000
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4Michigan1 in —
  5. 5Tennessee1 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. Linton has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Linton around the world

Where Linton 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
    1996–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1944–2009
    #708
    in 2009

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

Notable people named Linton

People whose public names include Linton, 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.

Linton 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
#606
1889
Peak year
1922
50 that year
First recorded
1883
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
2,360
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Linton

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

LinkinLindenLindonLeytonAlstonHustonFentonLawtonWintonFultonBrytonLinusPattonLinkenLinkHestonAustonTritonDuttonGastonKiptonMaxtonDeltonElston

Names with a curve like Linton

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

LenwoodHarrellHeywardWaymanGarvinWymanCurleyHilaryEzellAuthurWeltonChesley

Sibling names for Linton

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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