Name meaning & stats
Link
Link means “lake colony”. 2,556 US babies since 1940, peak 2022.
What it means
“lake colony”
Pet form of Lincoln
In US birth records
Peak year: 2022
2,556 US babies were named Link between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Link (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 89% of the family
- Link 89%
- Linc 7%
- Lynk 4%
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2022)