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Linda
Pronounced /ˈlɪndə/
Rank in 2024
#838
Born in 2024
321
Peak year
1947 · #1
Origin
Germanic
Also recorded for boys:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 321 girls were named Linda, about 1 in every 5,026.
- It peaked in 1947 with 99,693 babies, ranked #1.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 1,454,832 girls have been named Linda since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Linda per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.3Greatest1901–27
- 10.8Silent1928–45
- 29.6Boomers1946–64
- 4.6Gen X1965–80
- 1.1Millennials1981–96
- 0.4Gen Z1997–12
- 0.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 6,657 babies, 0.33 per 1,000. Silent: 222,445 babies, 10.76 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,059,723 babies, 29.59 per 1,000. Gen X: 118,425 babies, 4.64 per 1,000. Millennials: 29,862 babies, 1.06 per 1,000. Gen Z: 11,609 babies, 0.40 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 4,621 babies, 0.23 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Latinised short form of Germanic compound names ending in -lind, -linde (“tender, soft”) (English -inda), such as Sieglinde and Dietlinde, and earlier names such as Old High German Irmilinda and Old Dutch Frithelind, from Proto-Germanic *linþaz (“gentle, mild”), whence also Old English līþe (“gentle, mild, pliable, limber”) (English lithe). Later misassociated with unrelated Spanish linda (“beautiful”). The name became known through 19th century literature and the opera Linda di Chamounix (1842). More at lithe.
- A female given name from the Germanic languages.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- /ˈlɪndə/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Linda, CC BY-SA 4.0.