Linn

boys’ name · 63%girls’ name · 37%FadedCompare

Linn is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 905th, in 1882.

Rank in 2024: —fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024: 0not in the data
Peak year: 194750 births
Best rank: #905in 1882
Since 1882: 2,289people given the name

Babies named Linn, by year of birthboysgirls

The story in the numbers

1,450 boys have been named Linn in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1947, with 50 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 50 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1948, and the 1940s alone account for 25%. It has spent 2 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Linn is used for both sexes: 37% of its bearers are girls (839), most of them born around 1956.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Linn
1880s	11
1890s	16
1900s	6
1910s	92
1920s	157
1930s	152
1940s	361
1950s	339
1960s	180
1970s	89
1980s	47

In 1947, its biggest year

Linn was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1947 were James, Robert, John, William and Richard. See all of 1947.

Names that rose and fell with Linn

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

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.