Fewer than five US girls were named Erlinda in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #632, reached in 1949. That year also had the most girls given the name: 171. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #747 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Erlinda in 116 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1900 with 5 babies. In all, 4,656 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 991 babies named Erlinda.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 39 US girls were named Erlinda; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 10.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Linda (1,458,899 babies since 1880), Mila (84,577 babies since 1880) and Lynda (78,098 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Irlanda and Merlinda are summarised on this page.