Meaning and history
Linwood is an English surname derived from a place name meaning “stream forest” in Old English.
20052005: no US SSA record for this spelling
2006: 18 births, rank #4,865
2007: 14 births, rank #5,901
2008: 16 births, rank #5,487
2009: 7 births, rank #9,864
20102010: 8 births, rank #8,803
2011: 12 births, rank #6,578
2012: 8 births, rank #8,864
2013: 5 births, rank #12,136
2014: 10 births, rank #7,562
20152015: 13 births, rank #6,324
2016: 8 births, rank #8,816
2017: 9 births, rank #8,140
2018: 12 births, rank #6,703
2019: 6 births, rank #10,803
20202020: 11 births, rank #7,034
2021: 16 births, rank #5,562
2022: 8 births, rank #8,990
2023: 6 births, rank #10,821
20242024: 12 births, rank #6,832
Linwood moved from #936 to #953 for boys between 1975 and 1977. Its highest annual birth count came in 1948, with 276 births.