Fun Facts About the Name Linken
- 469 babies named Linken: U.S. records list 469 babies given the name Linken from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Linken Mean?
Linken has no single settled meaning as a given name. In English-speaking countries it is generally treated as a spelling variant of Lincoln, a surname taken from the city of Lincoln in eastern England. That place name goes back to Latin Lindum Colonia: Lindum, probably from a Brittonic word for a pool or marsh (compare Welsh llyn, "lake"), and colonia, "colony" or "settlement." Read this way, the name's meaning is geographical rather than personal.
Linken also exists as a Dutch and German surname. Those surnames are usually explained from the Germanic element link, "left," used as a nickname for a left-handed man or for someone who lived on the left side of a village; the ending -en can be a plural or an inflected form. A habitational origin from a place name built on the same element is sometimes proposed as well. These explanations belong to the surnames, and whether the given name comes from them is uncertain.
Linken Name History & Origins
As a personal name, Linken has little history of its own. It belongs to the modern practice of respelling familiar names and of turning surnames into first names, and its usual model is Lincoln. Lincoln was an English surname before it became a given name: the city behind it began as the Roman settlement Lindum Colonia, and the surname was long established in Lincolnshire and neighboring counties. Lincoln entered American given-name use in the nineteenth century, and respelled forms such as Linken followed the same route into use.
The Dutch and German surname Linken is older than any given-name use and follows the ordinary pattern of surnames formed from a physical description (link, "left") or from a place. Surnames of this kind can pass into given-name use in English-speaking countries, so a person named Linken may inherit it from a family surname rather than from the Lincoln spelling.
How Popular is the Name Linken?
Linken has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2018. Its best rank was #2,920 in 2018.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #7,042 | 12 | 0.0007% |
| 2024 | #7,511 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2023 | #10,345 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2022 | #5,339 | 18 | 0.0010% |
| 2021 | #4,179 | 25 | 0.0014% |
| 2020 | #3,312 | 34 | 0.0020% |
| 2019 | #4,419 | 23 | 0.0013% |
| 2018 | #2,920 | 41 | 0.0023% |
| 2017 | #3,046 | 39 | 0.0021% |
| 2016 | #5,060 | 19 | 0.0010% |
| 2015 | #3,479 | 32 | 0.0017% |
| 2014 | #3,579 | 30 | 0.0016% |
| 2013 | #4,264 | 23 | 0.0012% |
| 2012 | #3,427 | 32 | 0.0017% |
| 2011 | #4,447 | 22 | 0.0012% |
| 2010 | #4,185 | 24 | 0.0013% |
| 2009 | #4,120 | 25 | 0.0013% |
| 2008 | #4,833 | 20 | 0.0010% |
| 2007 | #5,812 | 15 | 0.0007% |
| 2006 | #7,786 | 10 | 0.0005% |
| 2003 | #9,251 | 7 | 0.0004% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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