Lynx
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Lynx is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “lynx, a wild cat”. In 2025 it ranked 2,797th for boys in the US (45 babies).
What does Lynx mean?
English: animal name, via Latin from Greek lynx
“lynx, a wild cat”
Named for the short-tailed wild cat; the word comes via Latin from Greek lynx.
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Is Lynx a girl's or a boy's name?
Lynx is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 45 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Lynx in the UK?
No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2024, with 5 boys.
Lynx in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 5 | #3,772 |
| 2023 | 1 | #6,556 |
How popular is Lynx in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #2,797among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 45about 1 in 38,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising fastup 104% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 45 boys in the US were named Lynx, making it the 2,797th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,915th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 63 boys. It first appears in the records in 2008.
Half of all the boys named Lynx in the US since 1880 were born between 2018 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2024, 11% of the babies named Lynx in the US were girls.
Lynx in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 45 | #2,797 |
| 2024 | 63 | #2,261 |
| 2023 | 55 | #2,440 |
| 2022 | 53 | #2,562 |
| 2021 | 32 | #3,494 |
| 2020 | 26 | #3,915 |
| 2019 | 30 | #3,633 |
| 2018 | 24 | #4,222 |
| 2017 | 19 | #4,931 |
| 2016 | 12 | #6,721 |
| 2015 | 12 | #6,671 |
| 2014 | 6 | #10,711 |
| 2013 | 10 | #7,532 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,152 |
| 2011 | 5 | #12,280 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 7 | #9,864 |
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Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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