Linkoln is a male first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Linkoln is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Linkoln. In the SmartGenius ranking, Linkoln is #2,637 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Linkoln.
In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Linkoln. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 71 Americans who bear this name. And these 71 men and boys named Linkoln live in no more than 9 different states, including for example California, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan and Missouri. In the other 40 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Linkoln lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Linkoln and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Linkoln relative to its male population is Utah. And even there, only one male in 194,526 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Linkoln.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter L is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for boys' names: 4.1% of all common boys' names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters of boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common initials of boys' names.
With seven letters, the name Linkoln has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. 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.
Thus, it follows that with 4.1% of all boys' names starting with an L, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with L that are quite common, the most common in the U.S. at present is Larry.
If your name is Linkoln 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 Linkoln, you can simply say:
Lion
Igloo
Nut
Koala
Orange
Lion
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Linkoln
Linkoln
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
L
I
N
K
O
L
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
N
K
O
L
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. Linkoln sounds like this:
