Lino

A boys’ name of Latin origin, meaning flax plant; from linum.

Babies a year
42
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#5137
3 babies

Lino by the numbers

In 2025, 3 babies in England and Wales were named Lino. In the US, 42 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 70 babies in 2003, making it a 2000s name.

Spelled almost the same

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

  • Liolion; a short form of Leo9 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Linhgentle; soft and kind14 in the US (2017)
  • Lenosmooth, soft cloth; a form of Leo7 in the US (2017)
  • Link135 in the US (2017)
  • Ling7 in the US (2017)
  • Lito7 in the US (2017)

Other names that mean a plant or herb

Like Lino, each of these has a plant or herb in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.

  • Brandonbeacon hill or gorse covered hill3,482 in the US (2017)
  • Hadleyheather field2,726 in the US (2017)
  • Reedred-haired or one who lives by reeds872 in the US (2017)
  • Briarthorny shrub, bramble640 in the US (2017)
  • Saigewise one; a respelling of Sage508 in the US (2017)
  • Rodneyfamous island, clearing with reeds301 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Lino

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