Linn
Recorded 1882–2005 · United States
Linn was most popular in 1956, when 84 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,885 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,294 people named Linn.
Linn over time
How old is the name Linn?
Linn first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1882, which makes it about 143 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 91 of the 144 years since. It was last recorded in 2005.
How many people are named Linn?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,294 American births named Linn 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 1,387 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Linn in 2025?
Linn 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 Linn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Linn is a unisex name — 36.8% of the 2,294 Americans given it were girls and 63.2% were boys. It changed hands: since 1968 it has gone mainly to boys, having gone mainly to girls before that.
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 Linn?
Roughly 1,387 Americans named Linn are alive today — 61% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 68 years old, and half are between 59 and 75.
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.
Where Linn is most concentrated
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