Linn
Linn is a boy's name that peaked in 1947, when it was the 1,014th most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2005. About 1,400 Linns are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 67.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Linn boys named Linn
Girls and boys called Linn
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Linn crossed from boys to girls in 1961, and has stayed there for 6 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 65% girls, and in 1970 it was 48%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 31 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,294
- Estimated living today
- 1,400
- Median age today
- 67
- Peak year
- 1947
- Best rank
- 1,014th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1882
- Girls / boys
- 844 / 1,450
How old the living Linns are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,294 babies given the name since 1882, about 1,400 are alive — 60 in every hundred. Roughly 0 of them are children and 830 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1958 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Linns
- Linn Ullmann (born 1966)Norwegian writer and journalist
- Linn Persson (born 1994)Swedish female biathlete
- Linn Jørum Sulland (born 1984)Norwegian female handball player
- Linn Berggren (born 1970)Swedish singer
- Mark Linn-Baker (born 1954)American actor
- Linn Svahn (born 1999)Swedish cross-country skier
- Linn Blohm (born 1992)Swedish handball player
- Linn Boyd (1800–1859)American politician
People named Linn with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Linn is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Linn is most concentrated in Pennsylvania (7.5×), Ohio (3.5×), Illinois (3.1×), California (1.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1947
The most popular boys’ names the year Linn peaked:
Linn elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norway girls | Linn | 8,639 | 4th |
| Sweden girls | Linn | 5,332 | 20th |
| Switzerland girls | Linn | 435 | 281st |
| Belgium girls | Linn | 215 | 554th |
| France girls | Linn | 60 | 6,477th |
| Scotland girls | Linn | 3 | 547th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Linn: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Linn | 421 | 0.034% | 231st |
| French girls | Switzerland | Linn | 13 | 0.003% | 516th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Linn | 1 | 0.002% | 156th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Linn is most concentrated in Bern, where 0.04% of children were given it – 84 of them.
Linn: rank by region
In 2024, Linn was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Linn | 654 | 7 |
In 2020, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Linn appears in the lists for Province of East Flanders (164th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Linn by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 34 | 271st |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Linn among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Linn | 546 | 708 |
| Finland boys | Linn | — | 6 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Linn against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.