Entry № 5948 · English origin

Lincoln Lincoln — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ LING-kuhn /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Lake colony (Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "lake colony (abraham lincoln, 16th us president)".

Lincoln is from the Roman-Latin Lindum colonia — "lake colony" — the English cathedral city in Lincolnshire. Lincoln, Nebraska — state capital. Lincoln Center — Manhattan performing arts complex. Future Mrs. Lincoln Park — celebrity baby naming culture.

Lake colony (Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Lincoln
Transliteration
Lincoln
Pronunciation
/ ˈlɪŋ.kən /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Lincoln stands.

Lincoln does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Lincolns before her.

Real people
Abraham Lincoln
16th US President.
1809 – 1865
In fiction
Lincoln
American presidential naming.

Names connected to Lincoln.

The number behind Lincoln.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Lincoln reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.