Lyncoln
#10,284 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Lyncoln has been given to 651 babies in the U.S. since 2007. In 2025 it ranked #10,284 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 47 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 70% boys, 30% girls all-time.
Babies named Lyncoln, 2025
1 in 474,000
Lyncoln 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Lyncoln over time
In 2025, Lyncoln went to 42% girls and 58% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Lyncoln?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 244,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #10,284
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Lyncoln sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lyncoln. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Lyncolns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Lyncoln was born before 2017 — so the typical Lyncoln is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 64.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 455
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 64.4% of all recorded uses (293).
Is Lyncoln 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
- −4,218
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −7,377
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −7,393
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.17×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 14.9%
- Peak was 2018 (47)
- Years since peak
- 7
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.8% average annual change
Spellings of Lyncoln
Lyncoln is not the most common spelling — Lincoln is, with 90.7% against Lyncoln's 0.39%.
Where Lyncoln is used
Across 1910–2025, Lyncoln was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 982,303 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 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. Lyncoln has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Lyncoln around the world
Where Lyncoln 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 & Wales2007–2022#4,790in 2022
- Canada2012–2022#2,335in 2022
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Lyncoln by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Lyncoln
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Lyncoln
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.