Linas

maleStatistical record

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

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

Linas: Recorded since 1965, it reached #289 in 1972, and it stood at #3,990 in 2021.

2registrars recorded it
39times a registrar ranked it
57years from first to last
#289highest recorded position

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 2007–2021

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
2007	#3589
2011	#4647
2012	#3987
2014	#4632
2015	#4747
2016	#4810
2021	#3990

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 32 of the 54 years from 1965 to 2018.

In 2012: #477 among boys in Norway, #3987 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1965–2021 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1965
First recorded at #486 among boys in Norway in 1965 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1965–2018
Highest recorded position: #289 among boys in Norway, in 1972 (recorded 1965–2018).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2021
Most recently recorded at #3990 among boys in England and Wales, in 2021.
England and Wales · Boys

Linas appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 32 years beginning in 1965, and has registered 260 births with the name.

Linas across 2 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.

Linas'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 · Boys	#486 (1965)	#289 (1972)	#478 (2018)	32 of 54	260 (1965–2018)	16 (1972)
England and Wales · Boys	#3589 (2007)	#3589 (2007)	#3990 (2021)	7 of 15	24 (2007–2021)	4 (2007)

Linas by decade in Norway · Boys

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 Linas in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960s	19	4 of 10	5
1970s	94	10 of 10	9
1980sbusiest	104	10 of 10	10
1990s	25	5 of 10	5
2010s	18	3 of 10	6

Across Norway · Boys, the 1980s were its busiest decade, averaging 10 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1965 to 2021. Highest recorded position: #289 in Norway in 1972.

Linas'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
2021	England and Wales	male	#3990	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4810	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#4747	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#4632	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3987	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#4647	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#3589	4	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#478	5	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#440	7	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#477	6	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#577	4	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#586	4	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#613	4	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#538	6	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#497	7	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#463	8	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#453	9	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#501	7	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#332	14	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#315	15	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#508	7	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#350	13	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#500	7	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#380	11	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#343	13	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#501	7	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#423	9	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#336	13	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#302	15	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#467	8	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#465	8	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#388	10	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#289	16	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#594	4	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#580	4	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#528	5	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#502	5	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#538	4	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#486	5	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.

Where Linas is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Linas, between 1965 and 2021, in 38 of those 57 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Norway	1965–2018	32	#289 in 1972
England and Wales	2007–2021	7	#3589 in 2007

Its high point came 35 years earlier in Norway (1972) than in England and Wales (2007).

No registrar recorded it for 9 years after 1997; it appears again in 2007.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1965 and 2021, ranked in 38 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #289, first reached in 1972.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 16 births, registered in Norway in 1972.

Its record falls into 8 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 9 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2007, and 42 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.

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.

Lin · #114, 33y
Lina · #69, 72y
Lincoln · #33, 30y
Linda · #1, 81y

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.

Bebhinn · #290, 38y
Katherina · #288, 34y
Winston · #291, 33y
Elva · #292, 40y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Katherina · #288, 34y
Marguerita · #288, 14y
Rosanne · #288, 28y
Arvydas · #287, 25y

Linas was ranked #289 in Norway · Boys in 1972. 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.

Hallvard#285
Jan-Erik#286
Jøran#287
Lennart#288
Niels#290
Saulius#291
Viggo#292
Werner#293

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

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 1965 to 2021. Highest recorded position: #289 in Norway in 1972. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Linas

Linas at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Linas across 2 official records

Linas by decade in Norway · Boys

Popularity data

Where Linas is officially recorded

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Linas

Linas at a glance

Linas across 2 official records

Linas by decade in Norway · Boys

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Linas