Lien
Lien was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 525 Americans have been recorded with it between 1975 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Lien by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Lien?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,693, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
34 babies in 1982, the peak
Lien peaked in 1982, when 34 girls were given it, #2,737 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #16,693 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,519 | 3.1 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,354 | 2.9 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,752 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,679 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,982 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,178 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,854 | 2.6 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,676 | 2.7 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,957 | 3.3 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 7 | #13,024 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,101 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,209 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,972 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,325 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,676 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,969 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,115 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,387 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,460 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,168 | 10.3 |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,136 | 13.3 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,421 | 9.0 |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,837 | 14.1 |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,754 | 14.0 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,783 | 9.8 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,866 | 9.3 |
| 1985 | 27 | #3,294 | 15.7 |
| 1984 | 26 | #3,286 | 15.4 |
| 1983 | 24 | #3,390 | 14.4 |
| 1982 | 34 | #2,737 | 20.1 |
| 1981 | 31 | #2,891 | 18.6 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,642 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,607 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,787 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,134 | 6.5 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,487 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,894 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Lien a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 525 Americans recorded as Lien, 99% are girls and 1% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Lien: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Lien, and how old are they?
An estimated 510 Americans named Lien and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 30 and 43. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 8,235 people named Lien (7,795 women and girls, 440 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 505 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Lien born?
The states with the most babies named Lien are California, Texas and Louisiana, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 100 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Texas | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Louisiana | 6 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Lien is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Lien is most over-represented in California: since 1975 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Lien with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 248,277 babies since 1880, Lien is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 121 babies recorded by SSA was a Lien (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Lien
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Lien and names like it
- Compare Lien and LynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sLien peaked in 1982.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Lien since 1910.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Lien.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Lien alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with LMost given first.