Link

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — one syllable, given to 135 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
135
the US, 2017
Rarity
Rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#2664
8 babies

Link by the numbers

In 2025, 8 babies in England and Wales were named Link. In the US, 135 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.

Its American peak was 145 babies in 2016, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Link

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Link. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Linoflax plant; from linum42 in the US (2017)
  • Linhgentle; soft and kind14 in the US (2017)
  • Lynk9 in the US (2017)
  • Ling7 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Link

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