Linda Girl
How popular is Linda?
#902 girl name in 2025
294 baby girls were named Linda in the US in 2025, making it the 902nd most popular girl name.
Linda popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #902 for girls (▼ 66 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 294 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-31% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #664 in 2015, #814 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1947 (99,692 girls) |
| Highest rank | #1 in 1947 (6 years at that rank) |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Linda counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Linda family of names ranked #778 for girls in 2025 (#764 the year before), with 324 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Linda | 294 | 91% |
| Lynda | 30 | 9% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Linda is most popular
Babies named Linda per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Pennsylvania: 0.8 per 1,000 (179 girls)
- Kentucky: 0.4 per 1,000 (31 girls)
- Ohio: 0.3 per 1,000 (74 girls)
- Wisconsin: 0.3 per 1,000 (31 girls)
- Indiana: 0.3 per 1,000 (42 girls)
Linda by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 493 | #255 |
| 1890s | 872 | #282 |
| 1900s | 996 | #293 |
| 1910s | 2,395 | #306 |
| 1920s | 4,455 | #277 |
| 1930s | 29,358 | #15 |
| 1940s | 531,660 | #1 |
| 1950s | 564,364 | #1 |
| 1960s | 225,454 | #3 |
| 1970s | 45,900 | #38 |
| 1980s | 22,819 | #107 |
| 1990s | 12,815 | #175 |
| 2000s | 7,220 | #354 |
| 2010s | 4,386 | #587 |
| 2020s | 1,956 | #800 |
Girl names about as popular as Linda
Questions
- Is Linda a boy or girl name?
- Linda is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Linda were girls.
- How popular is the name Linda?
- 294 baby girls were named Linda in the US in 2025, making it the 902nd most popular girl name.
- When was Linda most popular?
- Linda peaked in 1947, when 99,692 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #1, held for 6 years starting in 1947.
- How many people are named Linda?
- 1,458,899 babies have been named Linda in the US since 1880. We estimate about 1,093,804 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 73.
- Where is Linda most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Linda was most common in Pennsylvania, at 0.8 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.