Lynda
Lynda is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 10 births. Its best rank was 77th, in 1947.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 100.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19474,840 births
- Best rank
- #77in 1947
- Since 1882
- 77,948people given the name
The story in the numbers
77,948 girls have been named Lynda in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1947, with 4,840 births — 0.27% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 10 births in 2024, against 4,840 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1952, and the 1940s alone account for 36%. It has spent 57 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 3 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lynda | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 16 | |
| 1890s | 39 | |
| 1900s | 42 | |
| 1910s | 148 | |
| 1920s | 282 | |
| 1930s | 2,195 | |
| 1940s | 27,952 | |
| 1950s | 22,689 | |
| 1960s | 15,694 | |
| 1970s | 4,349 | |
| 1980s | 2,293 | |
| 1990s | 1,058 | |
| 2000s | 683 | |
| 2010s | 399 | |
| 2020s | 109 |
In 1947, its biggest year
Lynda was the 77th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1947 were Linda, Mary, Patricia, Barbara and Sandra. See all of 1947.
Names that rose and fell with Lynda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Diannepeak 1947
- Sharanpeak 1947
- Paulettapeak 1948
- Paulettepeak 1948
- Sharonpeak 1947
- Karonpeak 1948
- Sandrapeak 1947
- Diannpeak 1947
Other spellings in the data
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.