Lin
Meaning
bright, clear (လင်း); spelled Lin, Linn or Lynn in the US, where it slides neatly into American name patterns
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Lin has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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Popularity in Brazil
623 people · the #11,496 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 333,333 · median age 46
Among people named Lin living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1970s than in any other decade.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
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