Linford
Recorded 1896–2019 · United States
Linford was most popular in 1921, when 20 American babies were given the name — ranking #3,561 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 779 people named Linford.
Linford over time
How old is the name Linford?
Linford first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1896, which makes it about 129 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 82 of the 130 years since. It was last recorded in 2019.
How many people are named Linford?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 779 American births named Linford between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 332 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Linford in 2025?
Linford was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Linford getting more or less popular?
Linford is out of use. It averaged 6 births a year a decade ago and has not been recorded in the last five years.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Linford a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Linford is a boy’s name — 0.0% of the 779 Americans given it were girls and 100.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Linford?
Roughly 332 Americans named Linford are alive today — 43% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 62 years old, and half are between 42 and 75. That is a wide band, the mark of a name in steady use across generations rather than a passing fashion.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
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How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org