Given name & surname
Linas
Linas is a masculine given name. It is used in Lithuanian.
Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Linas isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1951. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Linas through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 117
- 117 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1957
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1971. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 13 in 1957. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 317 as a first name in 2020; 100 as a surname in 2000.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Linas’s family of names
In Limburgish usage, Linas has a conventional equivalent in the German form Linus.
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Linas
- Linas KleizaLithuanian basketball player (born 1985)
- Linas Antanas LinkevičiusLithuanian politician (born 1961)
- Linas PilibaitisLithuanian association football playerborn 1985
- Linas KlimavičiusLithuanian association football playerborn 1989
- Linas BalčiūnasRoad and track bicycle racerborn 1978
- Linas BanysLithuanian biathlete1998–2026
- Linas MėgelaitisLithuanian association football playerborn 1998
- Linas VaitkusLithuanian alpine skierborn 1973
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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