Linwood
Linwood reached its high-water mark in 1948 at number 409, and has been recorded 12,781 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2024. About 5,700 Linwoods are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 65.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Linwood boys named Linwood
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 12,781
- Estimated living today
- 5,700
- Median age today
- 65
- Peak year
- 1948
- Best rank
- 409th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 5 / 12,776
How old the living Linwoods are
born that year still alive today
Of the 12,781 babies given the name since 1880, about 5,700 are alive — 45 in every hundred. Roughly 170 of them are children and 3,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1960 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.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
From Old English lind (“linden tree”) + Old English wudu (“woods, forest”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Linwoods
- Linwood Boomer (born 1955)Canadian-American television producer, writer, and actor
- Linwood Barclay (born 1955)American born, Canadian humourist, author and former columnist.
People named Linwood with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Linwood is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Linwood is most concentrated in Maine (19.7×), Virginia (15.2×), North Carolina (12.4×), Maryland (3.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1948
The most popular boys’ names the year Linwood peaked:
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Linwood against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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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.