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Lynton

Boys' name

Variant of Linton

Lynton has been given to 69 babies in the U.S. since 1916. 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 1923, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Lynton, 2018

1 in 703,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Lynton: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Linton

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Lynton means

Lynton is a variant of Linton.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Lynton is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈlɪn.tən/ for Lynton.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Linton.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 69 boys were recorded with the name Lynton between 1916 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1923; its best national rank was #2,771 in 1936.

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 Lynton?

Lynton had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 703,000
5 of 3,516,853 births
Among boys only
1 in 363,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
487,541 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Lynton 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 2018 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 487,541 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Lynton. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Lyntons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Lynton was born before 1936 — so the typical Lynton is around 89 today.

Median birth year
1936
About 89 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
34.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
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1920s — 34.8% of all recorded uses (24).

Is Lynton 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 1923 (8)
Years since peak
102
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,771
1936

Spellings of Lynton

Lynton is not the most common spelling — Landon is, with 41.2% against Lynton's 0.02%.

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.

Lynton around the world

Where Lynton 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
    1996–2017
    #3,996
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1944–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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.

Lynton 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
—
Best rank ever
#2,771
1936
Peak year
1923
8 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
69
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Lynton

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

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Sibling names for Lynton

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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