How Many People Are Named Linwood?
people named Linwood are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 59,804 people in the US has this name
Based on 12,781 babies named Linwood in Social Security records from 1880 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
276 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
From a surname which was originally from a place name meaning "stream forest" in Old English.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Linwood in English. Counting Linwood and these spellings together, about 7,603 people alive in the US have the name.
Related & Similar Names
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Linwood in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Linwood alive today is about 62 years old, and 63% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 52 and 75 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Linwood first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1948, to 276 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2024
🏆 Rank History
Linwood has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #396, in 1945.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #396 (1945) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #484 in the 1950s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Linwood alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Linwood were born in North Carolina than in any other state: about 1,647 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Linwood was given 15.9 times as often in Maine, 15.6 times in Virginia and 11.9 times in North Carolina.
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