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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Linda

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#902

down −66 places

2025 births

294

down −30 births

All-time births

1,455,143

0% of them in 2025

More common than

100%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1947
99,692 births
Best rank
#1
in 1947
First recorded
1880
#305 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1954
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
146 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 194799,692#1Peak
  2. 194896,220#1
  3. 194991,015#1
  4. 195080,433#1
  5. 195173,982#1

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #1 in 1947 · peak births 99,692 in 1947

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 0% boys■ 100% girls

3,756 boys · 1,455,143 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Linda has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.