Linus
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About Linus
The name Linus is currently ranked #954 in U.S. births. and peaked for boys at #625 in 1882. It is currently rising in popularity. The name is most popular in LINUS, LINUS, and LINUS.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #1,160 | 163 | 84.9 |
| 2015 | #1,155 | 163 | 85 |
| 2016 | #1,363 | 131 | 69 |
| 2017 | #1,147 | 166 | 89.7 |
| 2018 | #1,259 | 147 | 80.9 |
| 2019 | #1,520 | 112 | 62.4 |
| 2020 | #1,404 | 124 | 71.8 |
| 2021 | #1,550 | 113 | 64.6 |
| 2022 | #1,441 | 126 | 72.2 |
| 2023 | #1,541 | 114 | 66.6 |
| 2024 | #1,425 | 129 | 74.9 |
| 2025 | #1,913 | 82 | 48 |
World rankings
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Famous Linuss
- Linus
second Pope
- Linus Yale
Sr. (1797,1858), American inventor; manufacturer of locks
- Linus Yale
Jr. (1821,1868), American mechanical engineer
- Linus William Roache (born 1964)
English actor
- Linus Torvalds (born 1969)
Finnish,American software engineer
- Linus Pauling (1901
1994), American chemist and peace activist
- Linus of Liege aka Francis Line
Jesuit priest and scientist
- Linus Reinhard "Lonny" Frey
American baseball player America nbaseball player
- Linus Gerdemann
German professional road bicycle racer
- J. Linus McAtee
American Hall of Fame jockey
- Linus Thornblad
Swedish high jumper
- Linus Sebastian
Canadian YouTube star
- Linus Maurer
real life California cartoonist, whose served as the inspiration for the name of
- Linus Ullmark (born Sven Linus Ullmark)
Swedish Ice Hockey Player
Linus in pop culture
- Linus Larrabee
character in film "Sabrina"
- Linus Van Pelt
character in the "Peanuts" comic strip and films
- Linus
character in film "Sharkboy And Lavagirl"
- Linus Caldwell
character in the Ocean's 11 films
- Linus
son of Apollo in Greek mythology
- Linus Rawlings
character in film "How the West Was Won"
- Ben Linus
character on TV's "Lost"
- Linus
indie/riot grrrl band
- Linus
Italian magazine published since 1965
- Linus
one of the lost operas by Jean,Philippe Rameau
- Linus Pauling Quartet
Houston psychedelic rock band
- Linus' law
named for Linus Torvalds, states that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow"
- Linus
character in the video game "Stardew Valley"
- Linus
extraterrestrial character, male Saurian Starfleet Officer on the USS Discovery on
- TV series Star Trek: Discovery
played by David Benjamin Tomlinson
