Link
Link was given to 108 boys in 2025, #1,579 among boys’ names; 2,689 Americans have been recorded with it since 1893 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,450 Americans named Link and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Link by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Link mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Link is “a diminutive of the male given name Lincoln.”
/lɪŋk/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Link?
#1,579 among boys’ names, 2025
Link fell from #1,322 in 2015 to #1,579 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 69.9 to 63.2 per million.
204 babies in 2022, the peak
Link peaked in 2022, when 204 boys were given it, #1,075 among boys’ names. The 108 births of 2025 are 53% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 108 | #1,579 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 130 | #1,420 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 147 | #1,305 | 0.09 |
| 2022 | 204 | #1,075 | 0.12 |
| 2021 | 156 | #1,234 | 0.09 |
| 2020 | 171 | #1,143 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 151 | #1,247 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 158 | #1,197 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 135 | #1,333 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 146 | #1,257 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (91)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 134 | #1,322 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 95 | #1,636 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 73 | #1,927 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 52 | #2,435 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 36 | #3,145 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 31 | #3,501 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 28 | #3,784 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 31 | #3,533 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 28 | #3,750 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 21 | #4,442 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,725 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 15 | #5,392 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 13 | #5,748 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 8 | #8,139 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 6 | #10,038 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,621 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,182 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,440 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,590 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 6 | #8,034 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 5 | #9,058 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,699 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 5 | #8,028 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,695 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,959 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,784 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,857 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,784 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 11 | #3,528 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 11 | #3,501 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,884 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 15 | #2,709 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 12 | #3,059 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 13 | #2,803 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 17 | #2,298 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 20 | #2,091 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 24 | #1,826 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 10 | #2,977 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,496 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,432 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 18 | #1,858 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 11 | #2,558 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 38 | #1,271 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 29 | #1,471 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 13 | #2,321 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 16 | #2,110 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,893 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 11 | #2,607 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 9 | #2,940 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 11 | #2,578 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,249 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,173 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 9 | #2,866 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,293 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 11 | #2,448 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,986 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 15 | #1,993 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,819 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 7 | #2,894 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 5 | #3,856 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,805 | under 0.01 |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,369 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 6 | #3,609 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 6 | #3,836 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,568 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,050 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,556 | under 0.01 |
| 1925 | 7 | #3,595 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,392 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 7 | #3,730 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,085 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,601 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,086 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,369 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,251 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,559 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,076 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,159 | 0.02 |
| 1911 | 6 | #1,653 | 0.03 |
| 1909 | 5 | #1,598 | 0.03 |
| 1893 | 6 | #979 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Link a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Link has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 91 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Link: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Link, and how old are they?
2,450 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 2,689 Americans ever recorded as Link. The median Link alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 1,641 people named Link (31 women and girls, 1,610 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,612 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 8 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 141 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 171 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 50 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 282 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,800 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Link born?
The states with the most babies named Link are California, Texas and Ohio, with 49% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 11 | #1,549 | 0.6× |
| Texas | 9 | #1,849 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,080 | 0.9× |
| Utah | 7 | #596 | 1.8× |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,040 | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,355 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,470 | 0.5× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,087 | 0.6× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Link 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 3,013 babies since 1880, Link is the most given (89% of them). In 2025 it was given to 108 of their 115 babies (94%), again the most given.
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 Link
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 Link and names like it
- Compare Link and LincBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sLink peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Link since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Link.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Link alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.