Linda
Linda is ranked 835th among girls in 2024 (321 births). It was the number one girl’s name in 1947–1952.
- Rank in 2024
- #835up 6 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3210.02% of girls
- Peak year
- 194799,693 births
- Best rank
- #1first in 1947
- Since 1880
- 1,458,588people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,454,832 girls have been named Linda in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1947, with 99,693 births — 5.6% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 321 births in 2024, against 99,693 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1952, and the 1950s alone account for 39%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 43 of them in the top 100 and 26 in the top 10.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 3,756 boys have also been given it, 0.26% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Linda | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 493 | |
| 1890s | 872 | |
| 1900s | 996 | |
| 1910s | 2,395 | |
| 1920s | 4,455 | |
| 1930s | 29,358 | |
| 1940s | 531,658 | |
| 1950s | 564,363 | |
| 1960s | 225,445 | |
| 1970s | 45,899 | |
| 1980s | 22,824 | |
| 1990s | 12,815 | |
| 2000s | 7,218 | |
| 2010s | 4,383 | |
| 2020s | 1,658 |
In 1947, its biggest year
Linda was the most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1947 were Linda, Mary, Patricia, Barbara and Sandra. See all of 1947.
Names that rose and fell with Linda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Diannepeak 1947
- Paulettepeak 1948
- Kathepeak 1951
- Lyndapeak 1947
- Diannpeak 1947
- Glindapeak 1951
- Marshapeak 1952
- Sherrylpeak 1957
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.