Boy · Brittonic and Latin
Lincoln
Say it: LING-kun
Meaning
From the English city of Lincoln, from Latin Lindum Colonia, Lindum being from a Brittonic word for 'pool, lake'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Given in honour of Abraham Lincoln from the 1860s, it rose again in the 2010s.
Its wave through time
Rising now
In the United States
- 79,834 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 2017, about 1 in 225 boys
- 7,179 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
Famous bearers
- Lincoln Steffens, American journalist
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Where this comes from
- National census records of the 19th and 20th centuries
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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