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Lynk

Gender
Boy
Say it
LINK
Origin
English
US rank, 2025
#9,710 for boys

Lynk is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “link, connection”. In 2025 it ranked 9,710th for boys in the US (7 babies).

What does Lynk mean?

English: respelling of the English word link

“link, connection”

Is Lynk a girl's or a boy's name?

Lynk is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Lynk in the US?

Rank in 2025
#9,710among boys
Babies in 2025
7about 1 in 240,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 7 boys in the US were named Lynk, making it the 9,710th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,029th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 12 boys. It first appears in the records in 2007.

Half of all the boys named Lynk in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 115 boys in the US were given Lynk or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,366, up from #9,710 for this spelling alone.

2007Busiest: 12 in 20162025
Lynk in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20257#9,710
20249#8,307
20239#8,250
20227#9,815
202110#7,582
202011#7,029
20197#9,750
20189#8,150
20179#8,136
201612#6,721
20157#9,562
20140–
20130–
20128#8,858
20110–
20106#10,759
20096#10,989
20080–
20078#8,909

Names like Lynk

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Lynk

More English names

Every English name

Sources

Figures from 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, “Lynk: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/lynk, updated 20 October 2026.