as a Last Name
- 17,394
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Lincoln
Meaning & Origins
English: habitational name from the city of Lincoln, so named from an original British name Lindo- ‘lake’ + Latin colonia ‘settlement’, ‘colony’. The place was an important administrative center during the Roman occupation of Britain and in the Middle Ages it was a center for the manufacture of cloth, including the famous ‘Lincoln green’.
| 2,116th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 17,394
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- Alaska
- has the most people named Lincoln per capita
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