Linkin
Linkin was given to 103 boys in 2025, #1,642 among boys’ names; 2,187 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,170 Americans named Linkin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 6 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Linkin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Linkin?
#1,642 among boys’ names, 2025
Linkin rose from #1,712 in 2015 to #1,642 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 47.5 to 60.3 per million.
191 babies in 2018, the peak
Linkin peaked in 2018, when 191 boys were given it, #1,062 among boys’ names. The 103 births of 2025 are 54% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 103 | #1,642 | 0.06 |
| 2024 | 94 | #1,759 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 115 | #1,534 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 105 | #1,646 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 125 | #1,447 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 139 | #1,304 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 139 | #1,318 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 191 | #1,062 | 0.11 |
| 2017 | 141 | #1,290 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 113 | #1,509 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 91 | #1,712 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 92 | #1,676 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 87 | #1,702 | 0.05 |
| 2012 | 88 | #1,723 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 79 | #1,817 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 90 | #1,706 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 97 | #1,633 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 96 | #1,626 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 76 | #1,886 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 43 | #2,722 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 22 | #4,135 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 21 | #4,200 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 16 | #4,947 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 18 | #4,416 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 6 | #10,039 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Linkin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Linkin has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Linkin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Linkin, and how old are they?
2,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,187 Americans ever recorded as Linkin. The median Linkin alive today is 9 years old; half are between 6 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 1,335 people named Linkin (36 women and girls, 1,299 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,529 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 645 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,520 |
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 Linkin born?
The states with the most babies named Linkin are Texas, Utah and Ohio, with 51% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Utah is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 10 | #1,714 | 0.6× |
| Utah | 6 | #671 | 3.7× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,194 | 1.3× |
| Minnesota | 6 | #767 | 0.1× |
| California | 5 | #2,663 | 0.5× |
| New York | 5 | #1,933 | 0.1× |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #850 | 0.4× |
Where Linkin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Linkin is most over-represented in Utah: since 2001 it was given 3.7 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 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 Linkin 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 3,784 babies since 1880, Linkin is the most given (58% of them). In 2025 it was given to 103 of their 143 babies (72%), 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 Linkin
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 Linkin and names like it
- Compare Linkin and LinkenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sLinkin peaked in 2018.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Linkin since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Linkin.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Linkin alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with LMost given first.