Lin
Around a hundred people in Poland carry Lin, split almost evenly between women and men: one of the few names here that works both ways. Its Slavic root means forest.
Lin Pronunciation
Lin is pronounced LEEN (/lin/).
What Lin means
Where Lin comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Lin is a short name with a Slavic root, and the meaning it holds in Polish is plain: las, forest. The sound is small. One syllable, quick to write, easy for a child to say before most other words.
In Chinese, the same short sound belongs to a common word for forest, written 林, a character built from two trees standing side by side. That coincidence gives Lin a second home far from its Slavic origin, where it reads as woodland as well.
On a Polish class register, Lin sits easily among the longer names around it. It has no diminutive of its own and no cross-gender pair, so it stays as it is on every official form at the urząd, start to finish. The meaning underneath holds constant in both worlds: forest, las.
How many people are named Lin
1 in 375731 women in Poland is named Lin. 103 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3372 among female names.
Lin as a middle name
Lin is a first name for 103 women in Poland and a middle name for another 22, an 82/18 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1533rd, between Lim (22) and Loan (22).
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#1531 Lilja22
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#1532 Lim22
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#1533 Lin22
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#1534 Loan22
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#1535 Luzia22