girls:
1.5k births since 1975
#4253 (26th percentile)
boys:
213 births since 1975
#4373 (5th percentile)
overall:
1.7k births since 1975
#6047 (22nd percentile)
The name Linh is the #6,047 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,703 recorded births since 1975. This represents the 21.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 21.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,253 (25.6% percentile) for all time with 1,490 births since 1975. For boys, it ranks #4,373 (4.6% percentile) for all time with 213 births since 1975.
Linh first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1975 .
The name Linh has been given predominantly to girls, with 87.5% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Linh were girls.
For girls, Linh reached its peak popularity in 1984, achieving the 7.5% percentile (ranked #729) with 35 births per million. The name was most common in 1984, with 35 births per million (ranked 7.5% percentile). Despite a low point in 2019, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Linh ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 8.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Linh reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 2.8% percentile (ranked #663) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1981, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1995.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Linh".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Linh. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 78.0% confident that Linh is pronounced as lihn, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is lihng, at 14.6% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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