Lindon
Masculine · “Old English lind”
In Old English lind meant both a lime tree and a shield, because shields were made of its wood. Poetry calls a warrior a lind-bearer. The tree's soft, light timber took a blow without splitting, and its inner bark made rope. A name element that now sounds ornamental was once a piece of military equipment.
How old is the name Lindon?
Lindon first appears in US birth records in 1913 — 112 years ago. The typical Lindon alive today was born around 1961, making them about 64 years old. About 800 people named Lindon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Lindon most popular?
Lindon peaked in 1941, reaching #1372 nationally. Today it ranks #8243, 6,871 places below that high. See the whole 1941 chart.
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Where it comes from
From lind tun to Lindon
The story of Lindon
The lime tree was one of the most useful in northern Europe and almost none of its uses are obvious now. Its bast, the fibrous inner bark, was soaked and stripped to make rope and matting; the Russian word for the tree gives the name of a whole class of woven bast shoes. Its wood is soft, even-grained and does not split easily along a blow, which made it the standard shield material across Germanic Europe, and its blossom makes a honey and a tisane still sold everywhere. Its avenues line the great streets of central and eastern Europe, Unter den Linden among them. All of that stands behind a name element that English speakers now hear as simply pleasant. The women's names built on it, Linda and Rosalind, are literally shield names, in the same class as Hilda and Matilda.
Meaning
Old English lind, the lime or linden tree
From Old English lind, the linden or lime tree, Tilia, and by extension a shield made of its wood, with tun, an enclosed settlement, giving the place name and surname Linden or Lyndon. The same lind element appears in the Germanic names Linda, Rosalind, Belinda and Gerlinde, where it carries the shield sense. Lindon peaks as an American given name in 1941.
How the name formed
- lind tun
- Lyndon
- Lindon
Related forms: Lyndon · Linden · Linde
Pronouncing Lindon
LIN-dun
Two syllables, stress on the first, short i. The second syllable is fully reduced. Lindon, Lyndon and Linden are homophones and only the spelling separates them.
Nicknames for Lindon
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1913
- Most boys named
- 194124 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1372reached in 1941
- Change vs 2023
- +80.0%9 in 2025, from 5
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Lindon in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Lyndon in English — spelling variant
- Linden in English — spelling variant
- Linde in German — related form
Lindons among us
people named Lindon are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 189,786 born in 2025 was named Lindon
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Lindon
- #8243
- Lindon on the 2025 chart
- #854
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Lindon went to 9 boys in 2025, but Lyndon is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 74, which makes it the 854th most-given boys’ name of the year — 7,389 places above the chart.
- Lyndon65
- Lindon9
About 1 boy in 23,082 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 189,786 for Lindon itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Eldo test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Lindon's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Eldo climbed just as high around 1915, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Eldo's path sketches the road Lindon is walking now.
Lindon sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Lindon beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Lindon in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Both elements have settled Old English meanings.
- The tree behind it is a genuinely useful and beautiful one.
- Lin works as a short form.
- Lyndon is the more common spelling and carries a presidential association.
- It is dated to the middle of the twentieth century.
- Linden is also a street name in a great many American towns.
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Frequently asked
- How many Lindons are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Lindon are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Lindon?
- Lindon is one of 2 recorded spellings. Lyndon is the more common one — 65 births in 2025 against 9 for Lindon.
- How popular is the name Lindon in 2025?
- Lindon ranks #8243 among US boy names in 2025, with 9 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Lindon?
- About 1 in every 189,786 US boys born in 2025 was named Lindon — 9 in all.
- Will my child share the name Lindon with classmates?
- Lindon will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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