Linton
Linton was last recorded in 2023, when 6 babies were given it; 2,360 Americans have been recorded with it between 1883 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,030 Americans named Linton and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (44% of everyone recorded); the median is 60 years old and half are between 42 and 74.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Linton by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Linton?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #11,690, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
50 babies in 1922, the peak
Linton peaked in 1922, when 50 boys were given it, #1,008 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 6 | #11,690 | 3.5 |
| 2020 | 5 | #13,287 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,400 | 4.5 |
| 2017 | 8 | #9,366 | 4.3 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,595 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 6 | #11,555 | 3.1 |
| 2013 | 8 | #9,322 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 6 | #11,683 | 3.2 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,710 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 8 | #9,332 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (119)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 5 | #13,688 | 2.5 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,446 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 8 | #9,241 | 3.9 |
| 2004 | 5 | #12,462 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 5 | #12,015 | 2.5 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,855 | 3.6 |
| 2000 | 11 | #6,158 | 5.6 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,925 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 14 | #4,785 | 7.3 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,823 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 12 | #5,063 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,721 | 5.2 |
| 1992 | 14 | #4,240 | 7.0 |
| 1991 | 11 | #4,963 | 5.4 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,874 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 15 | #3,737 | 7.5 |
| 1988 | 13 | #3,808 | 6.8 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,789 | 4.8 |
| 1986 | 20 | #2,651 | 10.9 |
| 1985 | 8 | #4,978 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 12 | #3,589 | 6.6 |
| 1983 | 15 | #3,014 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 21 | #2,388 | 11.6 |
| 1981 | 14 | #3,142 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 14 | #3,187 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,476 | 7.0 |
| 1978 | 10 | #3,744 | 6.1 |
| 1977 | 16 | #2,743 | 9.7 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,393 | 7.0 |
| 1975 | 16 | #2,596 | 10.2 |
| 1974 | 13 | #2,883 | 8.3 |
| 1973 | 16 | #2,458 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 18 | #2,210 | 11.1 |
| 1971 | 16 | #2,427 | 9.0 |
| 1970 | 25 | #1,772 | 13.5 |
| 1969 | 20 | #1,892 | 11.2 |
| 1968 | 25 | #1,602 | 14.4 |
| 1967 | 19 | #1,837 | 10.9 |
| 1966 | 14 | #2,183 | 7.8 |
| 1965 | 16 | #2,042 | 8.6 |
| 1964 | 24 | #1,641 | 12.0 |
| 1963 | 27 | #1,529 | 13.3 |
| 1962 | 28 | #1,501 | 13.5 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,254 | 3.8 |
| 1960 | 31 | #1,451 | 14.5 |
| 1959 | 23 | #1,692 | 10.8 |
| 1958 | 19 | #1,871 | 9.0 |
| 1957 | 24 | #1,657 | 11.1 |
| 1956 | 38 | #1,241 | 18.0 |
| 1955 | 30 | #1,408 | 14.6 |
| 1954 | 37 | #1,234 | 18.1 |
| 1953 | 31 | #1,367 | 15.7 |
| 1952 | 38 | #1,205 | 19.6 |
| 1951 | 31 | #1,336 | 16.5 |
| 1950 | 37 | #1,196 | 20.7 |
| 1949 | 41 | #1,105 | 23.1 |
| 1948 | 41 | #1,117 | 23.4 |
| 1947 | 44 | #1,100 | 24.0 |
| 1946 | 47 | #994 | 28.9 |
| 1945 | 24 | #1,364 | 17.8 |
| 1944 | 24 | #1,387 | 17.6 |
| 1943 | 38 | #1,118 | 26.6 |
| 1942 | 44 | #1,018 | 31.9 |
| 1941 | 25 | #1,358 | 20.4 |
| 1940 | 37 | #1,086 | 31.9 |
| 1939 | 25 | #1,348 | 22.6 |
| 1938 | 41 | #1,001 | 37.0 |
| 1937 | 28 | #1,282 | 26.3 |
| 1936 | 37 | #1,063 | 35.7 |
| 1935 | 30 | #1,242 | 28.8 |
| 1934 | 35 | #1,126 | 33.9 |
| 1933 | 26 | #1,322 | 26.2 |
| 1932 | 24 | #1,449 | 23.0 |
| 1931 | 27 | #1,350 | 26.0 |
| 1930 | 28 | #1,382 | 25.5 |
| 1929 | 35 | #1,186 | 32.5 |
| 1928 | 32 | #1,285 | 28.9 |
| 1927 | 36 | #1,218 | 31.9 |
| 1926 | 33 | #1,271 | 29.7 |
| 1925 | 23 | #1,612 | 20.6 |
| 1924 | 39 | #1,167 | 34.4 |
| 1923 | 40 | #1,134 | 36.5 |
| 1922 | 50 | #1,008 | 45.9 |
| 1921 | 31 | #1,348 | 28.1 |
| 1920 | 39 | #1,148 | 36.6 |
| 1919 | 45 | #1,015 | 45.9 |
| 1918 | 25 | #1,481 | 24.7 |
| 1917 | 36 | #1,127 | 38.9 |
| 1916 | 33 | #1,146 | 37.1 |
| 1915 | 22 | #1,488 | 25.9 |
| 1914 | 21 | #1,325 | 32.1 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,552 | 25.4 |
| 1912 | 21 | #1,014 | 48.8 |
| 1911 | 10 | #1,166 | 44.3 |
| 1910 | 5 | #1,744 | 25.7 |
| 1908 | 11 | #860 | 71.3 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,056 | 54.5 |
| 1906 | 5 | #1,352 | 37.6 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,340 | 37.8 |
| 1902 | 7 | #984 | 57.1 |
| 1897 | 7 | #898 | 62.1 |
| 1896 | 7 | #940 | 58.5 |
| 1894 | 8 | #828 | 69.1 |
| 1891 | 6 | #914 | 59.3 |
| 1889 | 11 | #606 | 99.5 |
| 1887 | 5 | #1,004 | 49.3 |
| 1886 | 6 | #916 | 54.2 |
| 1885 | 6 | #889 | 55.7 |
| 1883 | 5 | #980 | 47.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Linton a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Linton has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 119 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Linton: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Linton, and how old are they?
1,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 44% of the 2,360 Americans ever recorded as Linton. The median Linton alive today is 60 years old; half are between 42 and 74.
The 2020 Census counted 1,447 people named Linton (29 women and girls, 1,418 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,184 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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 | 109 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 381 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 229 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 171 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 91 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 47 |
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 Linton born?
The states with the most babies named Linton are Georgia, Louisiana and Florida, with 98% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 471 | not ranked | 7.2× |
| Louisiana | 146 | not ranked | 3.2× |
| Florida | 15 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Tennessee | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Linton is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Linton is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1910 it was given 7.2 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 Linton 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,429 babies since 1880, Linton is the most given (97% of them).
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 Linton
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 Linton and names like it
- Compare Linton and LyntonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sLinton peaked in 1922.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Linton since 1910.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Linton.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Linton alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with LMost given first.