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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Lynda

Recorded for both sexesBaby Boomer

2025 rank

#4,619

up +5,361 places

2025 births

30

up +20 births

All-time births

77,979

0% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1947
4,840 births
Best rank
#77
in 1947
First recorded
1882
#988 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1956
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
129 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 19474,840#77Peak
  2. 19484,167#84
  3. 19493,830#93
  4. 19503,300#107
  5. 19513,026#116

Rank over time

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

Best rank #77 in 1947 · peak births 4,840 in 1947

Boys and girls

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

● 0% boys■ 100% girls

119 boys · 77,979 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 Lynda has ranked, decade by decade

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