Lyncoln
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- LINK-un
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #9,710 for boys
Lyncoln is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “colony by the pool”. In 2025 it ranked 9,710th for boys in the US (7 babies).
What does Lyncoln mean?
English: respelling of Lincoln, the English city and surname
“colony by the pool”
Respelling of Lincoln; the city's name joins a Celtic word for a pool with Latin colonia.
Is Lyncoln a girl's or a boy's name?
Lyncoln is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls and 7 boys in the US.
How popular is Lyncoln in the UK?
No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2017, with 6 boys.
Lyncoln in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3 | #5,017 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 6 | #3,108 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 4 | #4,169 |
| 2017 | 6 | #3,191 |
| 2016 | 3 | #5,015 |
| 2015 | 1 | #6,220 |
| 2014 | 3 | #4,829 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 3 | #4,615 |
| 2007 | 3 | #4,486 |
How popular is Lyncoln in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #9,710among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 7about 1 in 240,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Falling fastdown 71% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 7 boys in the US were named Lyncoln, making it the 9,710th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,885th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 47 boys. It first appears in the records in 2007. 5 girls were also named Lyncoln in 2025 (14,937th for girls).
2025 had fewer boys named Lyncoln than any year since 2007.
Half of all the boys named Lyncoln in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 155 boys in the US were given Lyncoln or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,142, up from #9,710 for this spelling alone.
In 2022, 31% of the babies named Lyncoln in the US were girls.
Lyncoln in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,710 |
| 2024 | 15 | #5,899 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,215 |
| 2022 | 24 | #4,299 |
| 2021 | 34 | #3,360 |
| 2020 | 41 | #2,885 |
| 2019 | 35 | #3,256 |
| 2018 | 47 | #2,634 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,005 |
| 2016 | 41 | #2,884 |
| 2015 | 41 | #2,863 |
| 2014 | 25 | #4,011 |
| 2013 | 18 | #4,978 |
| 2012 | 18 | #5,030 |
| 2011 | 19 | #4,820 |
| 2010 | 10 | #7,585 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,305 |
| 2008 | 11 | #7,182 |
| 2007 | 7 | #9,782 |
Nicknames for Lyncoln
- Link 8 boys in the UK in 2025
Names like Lyncoln
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Lochlan Finn Rowan Lincoln Hudson Kayden Oakley Cillian Finley Ronan Jaxon Callan
Other spellings of Lyncoln
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Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Lyncoln: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/lyncoln, updated 20 October 2026.