Linden — #1545 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Linden

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,972 babies named Linden between 1889 and 2024, spanning 136 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Linden currently holds the #1545 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 113 babies received it in a single year. Linden is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,917 additional births since 1945.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Linden performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 810 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Linden shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 195 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Linden in 18 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Linden in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 3,972 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.