Boy · #69 in 2025

Lincoln

Lincoln: popularity and trends since 1880

Rank
#69
Born 2025
4,703
Peak year
2017

Popularity, 1880–2025

per 100,000 boys born

Lincoln per 100,000 boys born, by year. Peak: 2017. Gaps are years with fewer than five births, which SSA does not publish. Source: SSA, 1880–2025.

Recent trend

Lincoln has been falling: its share of boys born has shrunk over the last 10 years. It now stands at 62% of its 2017 peak.

Sounds good with

Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.