LynK
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Apparently an altered or variant spelhng of Linck or Link
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
LynK is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 125K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 475K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 6 (measured from records)
- 1 in 125K (inferred from the name graph)
701 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Apparently an altered or variant spelhng of Linck or Link.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
LynK counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 701 | 1 in 475K | 701 | LynK | 6 |
| GY Guyana | 6 | 1 in 125K | 6 | — | — |
| CA Canada | — | — | 1 | — | 2 |
| AU Australia | — | — | 1 | — | — |
701 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling lynk. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Miles Vandahurst Lynkb. 1871USAmerican physician (1871-1956)
- Beebe Steven Lynkb. 1872USAmerican chemist
- Oliver Lynkb. 2009CACanadian ice hockey player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 701 | #32,750 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 697 | #34,899 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 663 | #32,652 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 6 | #619 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name LynK mean, and where does it come from?
- Apparently an altered or variant spelhng of Linck or Link. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does LynK have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 701 people named LynK, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled LynK.
- Where is LynK most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, LynK is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 125 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name LynK?
- In the United States, the national register counted 701 people named LynK in 2010, about 1 in 475 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lynkThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “LynK”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.