Link

At the 2020 census, 21,010 Americans bore the surname Link — 1,676th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 14,200.

By the numbers

People: 21,010
Rank: 1,676th
How common: 1 in 14,200
Per 100,000: 7.0

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Link described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 88.5%
Black, not Hispanic 4.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Hispanic or Latino 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Link

Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767–1851)German naturalist and botanist
Caroline Link (born 1964)German film director and screenwriter
Kelly Link (born 1969)American writer
Charlotte Link (born 1963)German writer
Karl Link (born 1942)olympic cyclist
William Link (1933–2020)American screenwriter and producer

People named Link with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Link

Also a first name

Link has been given to 2,689 American babies as a first name since 1893, peaking in 2022. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.