Lin

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Lin: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Lin: Recorded since 1970, it reached #114 in 1973, and it stood at #513 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
45times a registrar ranked it
56years from first to last
#114highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2005–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2005	#4798
2006	#5061
2007	#3667
2008	#4524
2009	#5556
2010	#5707
2011	#3549
2012	#5876
2016	#4763
2017	#5765
2018	#4684
2021	#5581
2022	#5669
2024	#3695

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 26 of the 56 years from 1970 to 2025.

In 2024: #401 among girls in Norway, #3695 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1970–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1970
First recorded at #253 among girls in Norway in 1970 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1970–2025
Highest recorded position: #114 among girls in Norway, in 1973 (recorded 1970–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #513 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Lin appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 26 years beginning in 1970, and has registered 410 births with the name.

Lin across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Lin's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#253 (1970)	#114 (1973)	#513 (2025)	26 of 56	410 (1970–2025)	60 (1973)
England and Wales · Girls	#4798 (2005)	#3549 (2011)	#3695 (2024)	14 of 20	53 (2005–2024)	6 (2011)
England and Wales · Boys	#3208 (2005)	#3158 (2008)	#4810 (2016)	5 of 12	19 (2005–2016)	5 (2008)

Lin by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Lin in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1970sbusiest	310	9 of 10	34
1980s	26	4 of 10	7
1990s	5	1 of 10	5
2000s	15	3 of 10	5
2010s	43	7 of 10	6
2020s	11	2 of 10	6

Across Norway · Girls, the 1970s were its busiest decade — the 9 years of it this list covers, averaging 34 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1975 and 1976, when recorded births fell by 43, from 56 to 13.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Lin appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1970 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #114 in Norway in 1973.

Lin's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#3695	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#5669	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#5765	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4810	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#5876	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#3549	6	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#5707	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#4678	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#5556	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#4524	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3158	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3667	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3589	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#5061	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3208	4	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#513	4	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#401	7	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#415	7	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#490	5	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#382	10	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#458	7	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#559	4	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#565	4	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#499	6	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#524	6	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#607	4	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#544	5	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#588	5	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#536	7	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#569	6	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#539	6	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#495	7	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#641	4	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#329	12	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#321	13	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#118	56	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#136	49	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#114	60	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#128	51	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#126	48	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#253	17	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1970 and 2025, ranked in 33 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #114, first reached in 1973.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 60 births, registered in Norway in 1973.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 12 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 6 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2005, and 35 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

6decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 6 decades →
8 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years
12separate stretches the record falls into10 or more separate stretches →
6 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period4 to 9 years missing →
#513position in 2025, its most recent recorded year
35 yearsyears between the first and last registrar to record itAcross 21 to 40 years →
1registrars publishing it in more than one category listIn one registrar's lists →
60births registered in its largest year, 197350 to 99 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Linas · #289, 38y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Wilfred · #116, 29y
Loraine · #117, 30y
Garret · #121, 35y
Cahir · #105, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Karolina · #114, 51y
Lana · #114, 43y
Lyndsey · #112, 36y
Siofra · #116, 48y

Lin was ranked #114 in Norway · Girls in 1973. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Lin and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Lin without appearing here.

Lin moved ahead of

Cheryl Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5669 and #5669 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3695 and #5891.
Dianne Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5581 and #5581 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3695 and #5891.
Donna Compare
In 2023 they stood at #5669 and #5669 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3695 and #5891.
Evan Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4684 and #3518 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3695 and #5891.

Moved ahead of Lin

Blake Compare
In 2008 they stood at #3667 and #5201 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #5556 and #3936.
Louise Compare
In 1978 they stood at #329 and #352 in Norway · Girls; by 1979 that had become #641 and #267.
Martine Compare
In 1978 they stood at #329 and #331 in Norway · Girls; by 1979 that had become #641 and #325.
Melissa Compare
In 1978 they stood at #329 and #565 in Norway · Girls; by 1979 that had become #641 and #326.

Moved the opposite way to Lin

Ada Compare
Between 1970 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Lin went from #253 to #513 while Ada went from #468 to #18.
Alexandra Compare
Between 1970 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Lin went from #253 to #513 while Alexandra went from #401 to #212.
Alma Compare
Between 1970 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Lin went from #253 to #513 while Alma went from #471 to #8.
Andrea Compare
Between 1970 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Lin went from #253 to #513 while Andrea went from #342 to #98.

Moved the same way as Lin

Anita Compare
Between 1970 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Lin went from #253 to #513 and Anita from #4 to #459.
Anne Compare
Between 1970 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Lin went from #253 to #513 and Anne from #1 to #159.
Åse Compare
Between 1970 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Lin went from #253 to #513 and Åse from #57 to #93.
Aud Compare
Between 1970 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Lin went from #253 to #513 and Aud from #98 to #427.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1970 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #114 in Norway in 1973. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Lin

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Lin across 3 official records

Lin by decade in Norway · Girls

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