Name meaning & stats
Lincoln
Lincoln means “lake colony”. 103,498 US babies since 1940, peak 2017.
What it means
“lake colony”
Well documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 2017
103,498 US babies were named Lincoln between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Lincoln (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
Lincoln is the main spelling
- Lincoln 99%
- Lyncoln 1%
- Linkoln 1%
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2017)