Linnie
Linnie is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 14 births. Its best rank was 189th, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 140.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1921180 births
- Best rank
- #189in 1881
- Since 1880
- 8,695people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,983 girls have been named Linnie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 180 births.
The name has all but left use: 14 births in 2024, against 180 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1920, and the 1910s alone account for 18%. It has spent 66 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 712 boys have also been given it, 8.2% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Linnie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 696 | |
| 1890s | 875 | |
| 1900s | 924 | |
| 1910s | 1,399 | |
| 1920s | 1,388 | |
| 1930s | 918 | |
| 1940s | 719 | |
| 1950s | 488 | |
| 1960s | 240 | |
| 1970s | 128 | |
| 1980s | 65 | |
| 1990s | 25 | |
| 2000s | 15 | |
| 2010s | 37 | |
| 2020s | 66 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Linnie was the 528th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1921 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Linnie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Fanniepeak 1918
- Berthapeak 1918
- Nelliepeak 1918
- Addiepeak 1920
- Mattiepeak 1920
- Vinapeak 1920
- Lydapeak 1916
- Lurapeak 1917
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.