Lincoln
Lincoln is ranked 73rd among boys in 2024 (4,567 births). Its best rank was 40th, in 2020.
- Rank in 2024
- #73down 9 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 4,5670.27% of boys
- Peak year
- 20178,201 births
- Best rank
- #40in 2020
- Since 1880
- 102,155people given the name
The story in the numbers
100,181 boys have been named Lincoln in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2017, with 8,201 births — 0.44% of all boys recorded that year.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2017, and the 2010s alone account for 52%. It has spent 144 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 12 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,974 girls have also been given it, 1.9% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Lincoln | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 94 | |
| 1890s | 141 | |
| 1900s | 176 | |
| 1910s | 905 | |
| 1920s | 1,302 | |
| 1930s | 852 | |
| 1940s | 845 | |
| 1950s | 818 | |
| 1960s | 1,260 | |
| 1970s | 1,318 | |
| 1980s | 1,157 | |
| 1990s | 1,693 | |
| 2000s | 8,803 | |
| 2010s | 52,010 | |
| 2020s | 28,807 |
In 2017, its biggest year
Lincoln was the 41st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2017 were Liam, Noah, William, James and Logan. See all of 2017.
Names that rose and fell with Lincoln
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Greysonpeak 2017
- Karterpeak 2019
- Kacenpeak 2019
- Princetonpeak 2017
- Dashpeak 2017
- Axlpeak 2019
- Advikpeak 2017
- Daxonpeak 2017
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.