Linden

#2,256 for girls in 2025, 81 births · #1,409 for boys in 2025, 129 births
Given to boys 67.2% of the time

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Peak · boys
1947 · 57 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
4,102
since 1889

Linden over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201889peak #923, 1947girlsat peakboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#2,25681#1,409129
2024#2,53370#1,540114
2023#2,51770#1,73595
2022#2,12390#1,75095
2021#2,38475#1,554112
2020#2,39473#1,539107
2019#2,27280#1,634100
2018#2,25481#1,576106
2017#2,35777#1,530107
2016#2,66765#1,61899
2015#2,35178#1,72989
2014#2,92258#2,01770
2013#2,68165#2,33654
2012#2,90159#2,20959
2011#3,22251#1,99968
2010#2,80362#2,23958
2009#3,61944#2,20360
2008#4,36035#2,34555
2007#3,53146#2,81142
2006#4,16535#2,69843
2005#4,70428#2,96035
2004#5,96920#2,48944
2003#4,66827#2,78035
2002#6,39217#3,55424
2001#5,57020#3,41025
2000#5,70519#5,04014
1999#4,71823#2,93928
1998#6,71914#2,55233
1997#5,62617#2,90326
1996#4,45323#3,40620
1995#8,07910#3,30320
1994#4,68721#2,95124
1993#5,41917#4,69712
1992#3,58130#2,99922
1991#4,49722#4,00514
1990#5,54916#2,86522
1989#4,84818#2,54525
1988#5,89513#3,70513
1987#3,98321#2,40023
1986#2,97331#3,00516
1985#3,73022#2,59819
1984#3,87420#3,27013
1983#3,15126#2,27222
1982#4,71615#2,70917
1981#4,53216#2,27022
1980#8,1787#3,25613
1979#10,2105#2,89715
1978#8,5626#4,5547
1977#6,8928#3,8369
1976#6,0489#3,26411
1975—#3,42810
1974—#3,12011
1973—#2,21618
1972—#2,53414
1971—#2,55814
1970—#2,12518
1969—#2,13016
1968—#2,31113
1967—#1,85318
1966—#2,46511
1965#6,5395#1,66922
1964—#1,58125
1963#5,8916#1,45529
1962#5,2937#1,25938
1961#5,3097#1,52128
1960#5,6966#1,43431
1959#4,03110#1,38732
1958#2,97216#1,13146
1957#3,69611#1,26738
1956#5,9525#1,10647
1955#3,77810#1,21938
1954#4,2788#1,18640
1953#4,2268#1,03349
1952#3,04013#1,26834
1951#4,0118#1,24235
1950#3,6629#1,27232
1949#4,2357#1,11040
1948#4,6516#1,07943
1947#4,0078#92357
1946#4,4176#1,07641
1945#4,0256#1,18031
1944—#99143
1943—#98646
1942—#1,00744
1941—#1,20930
1940—#1,03139
1939—#1,16831
1938—#1,19930
1937—#1,14833
1936—#1,46321
1935—#1,39024
1934—#1,93214
1933—#1,10335
1932—#1,58420
1931—#1,58920
1930—#1,29930
1929—#1,61121
1928—#1,61122
1927—#1,02247
1926—#1,56523
1925—#1,58323
1924—#1,96417
1923—#1,27532
1922—#1,50325
1921—#1,64822
1920—#1,38228
1919—#2,15214
1918—#1,59622
1917—#1,29128
1916—#1,41524
1915—#1,34225
1914—#1,60815
1913—#1,44114
1912—#2,0457
1911—#1,5376
1910—#1,1938
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1907—#1,3455
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First appearance
1889

The first year at least five boys were named Linden! It came in at #974, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1889–1909, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Linden is popular in 1889

The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.

See more about Linden
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 131 spots since 2024 (#1,540 → #1,409)
  • 130 spots since 2020 (#1,539 → #1,409)
  • 320 spots since 2015 (#1,729 → #1,409)
  • Biggest jump: 153 spots in 1947 (#1,076 → #923)
  • Biggest drop: 189 spots in 1945 (#991 → #1,180)
Rise & fade · boys
58 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1889
  • Peaked 1947 at #923 (57 births)
  • Births halved by 1961, 14 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 4 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 1943–1944
Share of babies · boys
1 in 13,241
  • Highest: 1 in 13,241 boys born in 2025 were named Linden (0.01%)
  • Its best rank, #923 in 1947, was only 1 in 32,098 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 19.7% of all boys named Linden (810) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2014
  • Mostly girls until 2013, mostly boys since
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s5#974 (1889)#974
1890s0——
1900s10#1,345 (1907)#1,359
1910s163#1,193 (1910)#1,562
1920s260#1,022 (1927)#1,516
1930s258#1,103 (1933)#1,388
1940s414#923 (1947)#1,059
1950s391#1,033 (1953)#1,211
1960s231#1,259 (1962)#1,768
1970s127#2,125 (1970)#3,053
1980s183#2,270 (1981)#2,803
1990s221#2,552 (1998)#3,262
2000s377#2,203 (2009)#3,029
2010s810#1,530 (2017)#1,889
2020s652#1,409 (2025)#1,588

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Linden in 1889

boys
#974
5 births · 1 in 22,116 boys

Top boys' names in 1889

  1. #1John8,548
  2. #2William7,772
  3. #3James5,020
  4. #4George4,430
  5. #5Charles4,199
  6. #6Frank2,975
  7. #7Joseph2,729
  8. #8Harry2,559
  9. #9Robert2,513
  10. #10Edward2,299
  11. #974Linden5
More about 1889

boys

110,580 boys got a published name in 1889; 1 in 22,116 of them was named Linden, which outranked 12.3% of the 1,111 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 38.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Linden
  1. #878Williams6
  2. #878Winford6
  3. #878Wright6
  4. #974Linden5
  5. #974Abie5
  6. #974Alphonsus5
  7. #974Alta5

Tied with 137 names at #974; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1888
Risers
  1. ↑ 506Connie#1,031 → #525
  2. ↑ 483Hamilton#917 → #434
  3. ↑ 482Ballard#1,031 → #549
  4. ↑ 453Bertie#917 → #464
  5. ↑ 450Essie#1,031 → #581
Fallers
  1. ↓ 510Wendell#464 → #974
  2. ↓ 469Melton#505 → #974
  3. ↓ 462Enos#416 → #878
  4. ↓ 394Ruby#580 → #974
  5. ↓ 394Webb#580 → #974

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1889 →