Linn
Linn was last recorded in 2005, when 5 babies were given it; 2,294 Americans have been recorded with it between 1882 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,340 Americans named Linn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (58% of everyone recorded); the median is 68 years old and half are between 59 and 75.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Linn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Linn mean?
Wiktionary, Swedish section
Linn is “a female given name borrowed from Norway and currently popular”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Swedish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Linn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,700, in 1989; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
84 babies in 1956, the peak
Linn peaked in 1956, when 84 babies were given it (34 boys, #1,324 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 5 | #18,066 | under 5 | |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,270 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,106 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,714 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,658 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,253 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 5 | #8,700 | |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,878 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,632 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 6 | #6,397 |
Every recorded year (91)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 7 | #8,859 | 7 | #5,508 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,690 | 6 | #6,039 |
| 1983 | under 5 | 6 | #5,928 | |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,171 | 7 | #5,366 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,638 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 10 | #4,016 | |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,055 | 7 | #5,154 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,191 | 8 | #4,406 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,387 | 7 | #4,917 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,419 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,609 | 7 | #4,601 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,555 | 12 | #3,060 |
| 1973 | under 5 | 13 | #2,804 | |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,015 | 12 | #2,935 |
| 1971 | 11 | #4,977 | 9 | #3,549 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,385 | 14 | #2,583 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,709 | 17 | #2,094 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,365 | 14 | #2,258 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,183 | 10 | #2,706 |
| 1966 | 19 | #2,898 | 13 | #2,292 |
| 1965 | 20 | #2,791 | 11 | #2,559 |
| 1964 | 17 | #3,186 | 16 | #2,079 |
| 1963 | 22 | #2,666 | 18 | #1,935 |
| 1962 | 22 | #2,635 | 18 | #1,933 |
| 1961 | 29 | #2,224 | 20 | #1,854 |
| 1960 | 32 | #2,032 | 43 | #1,200 |
| 1959 | 36 | #1,868 | 31 | #1,426 |
| 1958 | 27 | #2,191 | 33 | #1,357 |
| 1957 | 21 | #2,528 | 30 | #1,440 |
| 1956 | 50 | #1,511 | 34 | #1,324 |
| 1955 | 35 | #1,784 | 32 | #1,357 |
| 1954 | 33 | #1,814 | 27 | #1,483 |
| 1953 | 27 | #1,992 | 37 | #1,235 |
| 1952 | 35 | #1,667 | 36 | #1,234 |
| 1951 | 17 | #2,532 | 44 | #1,089 |
| 1950 | 24 | #1,978 | 35 | #1,226 |
| 1949 | 29 | #1,785 | 43 | #1,078 |
| 1948 | 32 | #1,656 | 35 | #1,225 |
| 1947 | 18 | #2,407 | 50 | #1,021 |
| 1946 | 18 | #2,276 | 42 | #1,068 |
| 1945 | 15 | #2,295 | 41 | #1,002 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,262 | 29 | #1,249 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,639 | 27 | #1,351 |
| 1942 | 15 | #2,361 | 36 | #1,158 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,415 | 29 | #1,245 |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,737 | 29 | #1,269 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,297 | 26 | #1,310 |
| 1938 | under 5 | 22 | #1,460 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 23 | #1,429 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 13 | #2,022 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 6 | #3,482 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 11 | #2,347 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 17 | #1,747 | |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,790 | 7 | #3,248 |
| 1931 | under 5 | 10 | #2,574 | |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,937 | 17 | #1,868 |
| 1929 | under 5 | 18 | #1,835 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 22 | #1,629 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 19 | #1,847 | |
| 1926 | under 5 | 10 | #2,827 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 14 | #2,271 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 24 | #1,608 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 16 | #2,079 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 9 | #3,148 | |
| 1921 | under 5 | 14 | #2,322 | |
| 1920 | under 5 | 11 | #2,694 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 14 | #2,212 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 9 | #3,009 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 10 | #2,649 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 12 | #2,337 | |
| 1915 | under 5 | 11 | #2,386 | |
| 1914 | under 5 | 10 | #2,205 | |
| 1913 | under 5 | 14 | #1,478 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 7 | #2,160 | |
| 1911 | under 5 | 5 | #1,895 | |
| 1902 | under 5 | 6 | #1,090 | |
| 1897 | under 5 | 5 | #1,161 | |
| 1893 | under 5 | 5 | #1,127 | |
| 1891 | under 5 | 6 | #913 | |
| 1884 | under 5 | 5 | #1,059 | |
| 1882 | under 5 | 6 | #904 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Linn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,294 Americans recorded as Linn, 37% are girls and 63% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Linn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Linn, and how old are they?
1,340 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 58% of the 2,294 Americans ever recorded as Linn. The median Linn alive today is 68 years old; half are between 59 and 75.
The 2020 Census counted 1,936 people named Linn (1,108 women and girls, 828 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,520 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 130 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 806 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 290 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 96 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 15 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 10,246 babies since 1880, Linn is the second most given (22% of them). In 2025 none of their 958 babies recorded by SSA was a Linn (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 Linn
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 Linn and names like it
- Compare Linn and LianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sLinn peaked in 1956.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Linn since 1910.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Linn.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Linn alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.