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Boy's name · #69 in the US (2025) · 2020s wave
98% boys · 2% girls — Lincoln is also given to girls: 75 in 2025, about 1 in 50 in recent years. Lincoln →
Lincoln's best rank, #40, came in 2020; it has settled back to #69 today. Roughly 105,000 boys have been named Lincoln since 1880.
Already rising, US births of Lincoln increased from 502 in 2005 to 1,109 in 2006, the year after Prison Break introduced Dominic Purcell as Lincoln Burrows.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 51 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#67 in Australia (QLD) (2025) · #81 in Australia (VIC) (2025) · #108 in New Zealand (2025) · #303 in England & Wales (2025) · #384 in Scotland (2025) · #455 in Ireland (2025) · #739 in Sweden (2025) · #67 in Canada (2024).
Among 221 notable people named Lincoln:
Sports figures appear 1.42× more often than among typical names — e.g. Lincoln, Brazilian footballer (born 1979).
About 150 boys a year are given Link as their full name.
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