girls:
1.9k births since 1985
#3903 (32nd percentile)
boys:
95.6k births since 1880
#316 (93rd percentile)
overall:
97.5k births since 1880
#696 (91st percentile)
The name Lincoln is the #696 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 97,462 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 91.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 91.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #316 (93.1% percentile) for all time with 95,565 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #3,903 (31.7% percentile) for all time with 1,897 births since 1985.
Lincoln has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1985 for girls). Birth data for Lincoln is available in 143 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (143 years for boys and 34 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Lincoln has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Lincoln reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 95.7% percentile (ranked #40) with 3,809 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 4,141 births per million (ranked 95.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Lincoln ranks #62 for boys (93.3% percentile) with 2,644 births per million, which is 63.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Lincoln reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 24.4% percentile (ranked #718) with 127 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 127 births per million (ranked 24.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Lincoln ranks #863 for girls (8.9% percentile) with 51 births per million, which is 40.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lincoln".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Lincoln. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 53.2% confident that Lincoln is pronounced as LIHNGK-uhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LIHN-kuhn, at 21.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like L IH1 N G K AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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