girls:
186 births since 2007
#5530 (3rd percentile)
boys:
432 births since 2007
#4154 (9th percentile)
overall:
618 births since 2007
#7121 (8th percentile)
The name Lyncoln is the #7,121 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 618 recorded births since 2007. This represents the 8.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 8.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,154 (9.4% percentile) for all time with 432 births since 2007. For girls, it ranks #5,530 (3.2% percentile) for all time with 186 births since 2007.
Lyncoln first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2007 .
The name Lyncoln has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (69.9% of all recorded births). In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Lyncoln were boys.
For boys, Lyncoln reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 4.6% percentile (ranked #871) with 24 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 24 births per million (ranked 4.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Lyncoln ranks #903 for boys (0.9% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 29.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Lyncoln reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #940) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lyncoln".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Lyncoln. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 42.9% confident that Lyncoln is pronounced as LIHNGK-uhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LIHN-kuhn, at 28.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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