In 2025, 110 US girls were named Belinda, making it the 1,819th most common girls’ name of the year, down 98 places from #1,721 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 118 girls named Belinda in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #141, reached in 1961. That year also had the most girls given the name: 3,120. For comparison, it was #1,267 in 2015 and #173 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Belinda in 125 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1889 with 5 babies. In all, 73,110 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 23,003 babies named Belinda.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,432 US girls were named Belinda; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 182. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,612 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Belinda ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #1,124 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Belynda, Belina and Belenda are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Belle and Linda.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and Polish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.