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The name Lincoln is of English origin, and means town by a pool. The table below indicates the number of times the name Lincoln has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Lincoln**
Use of the Name Lincoln for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
12,155	7,430	4,456	2,579	1,704	820	413

The table below indicates the number of times the name Lincoln has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Lincoln**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	620	10
1881	955	5
1882	528	13
1883	545	12
1884
1885	591	11
1886	915	6
1887	718	8
1888	515	15
1889	513	14
1890	553	13
1891	463	15
1892	490	17
1893	637	11
1894	704	10
1895	375	26
1896	614	13
1897	571	14
1898	852	8
1899	534	14
1900	547	20
1901	709	10
1902	531	17
1903	722	11
1904	601	15
1905	539	19
1906	556	18
1907	762	13
1908	603	19
1909	442	33
1910	459	36
1911	511	34
1912	576	49
1913	548	63
1914	478	103
1915	511	118
1916	498	131
1917	507	128
1918	535	128
1919	556	117
1920	522	138
1921	575	121
1922	633	105
1923	527	133
1924	494	157
1925	512	142
1926	509	142
1927	541	130
1928	529	131
1929	604	100
1930	675	86
1931	557	111
1932	609	95
1933	606	92
1934	627	92
1935	690	77
1936	714	70
1937	693	75
1938	698	76
1939	673	78
1940	733	70
1941	654	87
1942	644	98
1943	669	92
1944	709	77
1945	640	89
1946	778	73
1947	709	94
1948	789	75
1949	721	90
1950	736	87
1951	811	75
1952	721	95
1953	760	87
1954	902	68
1955	791	85
1956	877	73
1957	763	97
1958	890	72
1959	854	79
1960	828	84
1961	699	120
1962	647	143
1963	568	193
1964	555	202
1965	656	128
1966	697	113
1967	740	99
1968	866	70
1969	767	103
1970	688	145
1971	618	181
1972	683	139
1973	783	103
1974	773	108
1975	684	146
1976	676	149
1977	697	148
1978	883	95
1979	878	99
1980	928	92
1981	805	118
1982	811	119
1983	822	112
1984	732	141
1985	833	116
1986
1987	847	122
1988	865	121
1989	925	121
1990	855	143
1991	837	153
1992	848	156
1993	791	178
1994	777	185
1995	777	191
1996	897	149
1997	886	156
1998	884	165
1999	747	214
2000	709	247
2001	616	309
2002	609	328
2003	550	407
2004	549	413
Totals:		12,155		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Lincoln as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Lincoln appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 123 times during the last 125 years.

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