Lincoln
loc · Latin script
Meaning: person from Lincoln, Lincolnshire (‘Roman colony by the pool’)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/lɪŋkən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lincoln is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- GBUnited Kingdom
- AUAustralia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 442 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
person from Lincoln, Lincolnshire (‘Roman colony by the pool’)
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Lincoln counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 65K | Lincoln | 442 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 6 | Lincoln | 195 |
| CA Canada | — | 75 | Lincoln | 129 |
| AU Australia | — | 344 | Lincoln | 206 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | 43 | Lincoln | 74 |
| BR Brazil | — | 6.5K | Lincoln | 6 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Lincoln is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, from Lincoln; first attested Aluredus (de) Lincolia 1086 DB
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Abraham, ]6th US president; city,
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Spanish, Del apellido Abraham Lincoln; procede de la ciudad inglesa Lincoln, del latín Lindum o Lindocolina.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Benjamin Lincolnb. 1733USContinental Army general (1733–1810)
- Abraham Lincolnb. 1809USpresident of the United States from 1861 to 1865 (1809-1865)
- Mary Todd Lincolnb. 1818USFirst Lady of the United States from 1861 to 1865
- Robert Todd Lincolnb. 1843USUnion Army officer, U.S. ambassador, and Secretary of War (1843–1926)
- Tad Lincolnb. 1853USFourth son of President Abraham Lincoln (1853–1871)
- Wilbur L. Scovilleb. 1865USnot in their usual nameAmerican pharmacist (1865–1942)
- Elmo Lincolnb. 1889USAmerican film actor (1889-1952)
- John Forsytheb. 1918USnot in their usual nameAmerican film and television actor (1918–2010)
- Abbey Lincolnb. 1930USAmerican singer (1930–2010)
- Andrew Lincolnb. 1973GBBritish actor (born 1973)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 76 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 65K | #761 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 6.5K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 6.5K | #2,272 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 4.8K | #3,485 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 4.7K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.3K | #761 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 400 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2023 | 344 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 311 | — |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 2024 | 89 | #95 |
| AU Australia | AU state BDM — consolidated top baby names (NSW + SA + QLD) | 2025 | 82 | #67 |
| AU Australia | QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present) | 2025 | 82 | — |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lincoln mean, and where does it come from?
- person from Lincoln, Lincolnshire (‘Roman colony by the pool’) Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Lincoln have the most bearers?
- Lincoln is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled lincoln.
- How do you pronounce Lincoln?
- A machine transcription gives /lɪŋkən/ (IPA) for English.
What do you want to know about Lincoln?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lincolnThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Lincoln”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.