Meaning not yet researched.
Linette: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #863 in 1970.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #863 in 1970; #14,215 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Linette in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#14,215 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1970, at #863.
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Linette: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 girls in 2025. Peak: #863 in 1970 · most girls in one year: 156 (1970).
In 2025, 6 US girls were named Linette, making it the 14,215th most common girls’ name of the year, down 3,466 places from #10,749 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 9 girls named Linette in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #863, reached in 1970. That year also had the most girls given the name: 156. For comparison, it was #10,565 in 2015 and #1,371 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Linette in 90 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1925 with 6 babies. In all, 4,285 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 1,077 babies named Linette.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 108 US girls were named Linette; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 16. In 2025 that was about 1 in 267,878 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Lynette (43,445 babies since 1880) and Lynnette (15,226 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lineth, Linet and Lianett are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Lineth (166), Linet (74), Lianett (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Linette in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,215 | — | — |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,749 | — | — |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,823 | — | — |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,113 | — | — |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,003 | — | — |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,792 | — | — |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,001 | — | — |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,251 | — | — |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,289 | — | — |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,830 | — | — |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,565 | — | — |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,887 | — | — |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,937 | — | — |
| 2012 | 22 | #6,028 | — | — |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,146 | — | — |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,924 | — | — |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,815 | — | — |
| 2008 | 40 | #3,978 | — | — |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,176 | — | — |
| 2006 | 49 | #3,348 | — | — |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,780 | — | — |
| 2004 | 35 | #4,054 | — | — |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,634 | — | — |
| 2002 | 34 | #3,856 | — | — |
| 2001 | 42 | #3,286 | — | — |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,942 | — | — |
| 1999 | 40 | #3,224 | — | — |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,054 | — | — |
| 1997 | 34 | #3,408 | — | — |
| 1996 | 31 | #3,595 | — | — |
| 1995 | 40 | #2,955 | — | — |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,969 | — | — |
| 1993 | 47 | #2,621 | — | — |
| 1992 | 39 | #3,010 | — | — |
| 1991 | 58 | #2,258 | — | — |
| 1990 | 50 | #2,453 | — | — |
| 1989 | 58 | #2,135 | — | — |
| 1988 | 51 | #2,234 | — | — |
| 1987 | 58 | #1,954 | — | — |
| 1986 | 44 | #2,320 | — | — |
| 1985 | 45 | #2,274 | — | — |
| 1984 | 38 | #2,499 | — | — |
| 1983 | 34 | #2,632 | — | — |
| 1982 | 37 | #2,559 | — | — |
| 1981 | 52 | #2,020 | — | — |
| 1980 | 47 | #2,170 | — | — |
| 1979 | 53 | #1,962 | — | — |
| 1978 | 73 | #1,530 | — | — |
| 1977 | 77 | #1,445 | — | — |
| 1976 | 88 | #1,266 | — | — |
| 1975 | 97 | #1,198 | — | — |
| 1974 | 67 | #1,479 | — | — |
| 1973 | 92 | #1,180 | — | — |
| 1972 | 99 | #1,125 | — | — |
| 1971 | 154 | #875 | — | — |
| 1970 | 156 | #863 | — | — |
| 1969 | 143 | #877 | — | — |
| 1968 | 100 | #1,047 | — | — |
| 1967 | 113 | #963 | — | — |
| 1966 | 120 | #925 | — | — |
| 1965 | 120 | #929 | — | — |
| 1964 | 128 | #930 | — | — |
| 1963 | 102 | #1,070 | — | — |
| 1962 | 91 | #1,146 | — | — |
| 1961 | 92 | #1,150 | — | — |
| 1960 | 68 | #1,346 | — | — |
| 1959 | 70 | #1,284 | — | — |
| 1958 | 77 | #1,216 | — | — |
| 1957 | 83 | #1,163 | — | — |
| 1956 | 84 | #1,129 | — | — |
| 1955 | 59 | #1,315 | — | — |
| 1954 | 55 | #1,359 | — | — |
| 1953 | 50 | #1,384 | — | — |
| 1952 | 50 | #1,376 | — | — |
| 1951 | 47 | #1,374 | — | — |
| 1950 | 45 | #1,371 | — | — |
| 1949 | 34 | #1,617 | — | — |
| 1948 | 21 | #2,160 | — | — |
| 1947 | 18 | #2,407 | — | — |
| 1946 | 16 | #2,441 | — | — |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,544 | — | — |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,959 | — | — |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,967 | — | — |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,111 | — | — |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,798 | — | — |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,501 | — | — |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,049 | — | — |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,697 | — | — |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,489 | — | — |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,720 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).