Lien is a female first name, but it has increasingly been given to boys for a number of years.
Recently, the name Lien has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Lien. That means that a girl named Lien is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Lien.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Lien. Girls named Lien have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 2,490 Lien ranked higher than ever before in 1982. By comparison, there have been 104 years in which the first name Lien has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2021. In general, parents name their daughters Lien only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Lien was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Lien continues to be a precious jewel: 5 newborns were named Lien that year, ranking #13,280 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Lien, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
The first name Lien is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 116 Americans in total bear this name. And these 116 women are located in only three states: California, Louisiana and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 women with this name in the state. So, if your name is Lien and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most girls and women named Lien in relation to it’s female population is California. And yet even there, only one in 149,129 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Lien.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is a particularly popular initial letter for girls' names – 6.8% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A and S.
With four letters, the name Lien is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.8% of all girls' names that begin with an L, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which girls' name with L is the most common... the answer is Linda.
If your name is Lien and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Lien, you can simply say:
Lion
Igloo
Elephant
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Lien
Lien
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
I
E
N
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
L
I
E
N
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Lien sounds like this:
