Lin
Recorded for both sexesGen X2025 rank
#12,636
up +1,886 places
2025 births
7
up +1 births
All-time births
1,034
1% of them in 2025
More common than
90%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1952
- 35 births
- Best rank
- #1,667
- in 1952
- First recorded
- 1917
- #4,982 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1973
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 87 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 195235#1,667Peak
- 196035#1,940
- 195734#1,888
- 195531#1,930
- 195931#2,039
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #1,667 in 1952 · peak births 35 in 1952
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 45% boys■ 55% girls
863 boys · 1,034 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Lin has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.