boys:
779 births since 1896
#3808 (17th percentile)
overall:
779 births since 1896
#6960 (10th percentile)
The name Linford is the #6,960 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 779 recorded births since 1896. This represents the 10.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,808 (16.9% percentile) for all time with 779 births since 1896.
Linford first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1896 (first recorded for boys in 1896). Birth data for Linford is available in 82 out of the 124 years between 1896 and 2019. 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.
For boys, Linford reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 2.7% percentile (ranked #535) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 1896, with 39 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Linford".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Linford is pronounced as LIHN-ferd, which has 2 syllables.
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