Meaning not yet researched.
Linnea: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 149 in 2025. Its best rank was #745 in 1945.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #745 in 1945; #1,449 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Linnea in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,449 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1945, at #745.
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Linnea: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 149 girls in 2025. Peak: #745 in 1945 · most girls in one year: 177 (2015).
In 2025, 149 US girls were named Linnea, making it the 1,449th most common girls’ name of the year, up 157 places from #1,606 in 2024. That is 18 more than the 131 girls named Linnea in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #745, reached in 1945. The most girls given the name in a single year was 177, in 2015. For comparison, it was #1,346 in 2015 and #853 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Linnea in 128 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1894 with 5 babies. In all, 9,944 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,512 babies named Linnea.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,419 US girls were named Linnea; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 159. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,787 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Linnea ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #389 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Linnie (8,709 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lynea, Lenea and Lennea 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 Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Lynea (388), Lenea (202), Lennea (54), Lynneah (39), Lynnia (23), Linny (16), Linneah (6), Lennia (5), Linie (5).
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 Linnea in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 14 | #389 | #314 |
| Utah | 7 | #576 | — |
| Washington | 10 | #654 | #448 |
| Colorado | 8 | #675 | — |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #836 | #720 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,105 | — |
| California | 16 | #1,451 | #993 |
| New York | 9 | #1,471 | #1,883 |
| Florida | 5 | #2,352 | — |
| Texas | 7 | #2,808 | #3,111 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 149 | #1,449 | — | — |
| 2024 | 131 | #1,606 | — | — |
| 2023 | 150 | #1,467 | — | — |
| 2022 | 136 | #1,566 | — | — |
| 2021 | 135 | #1,559 | — | — |
| 2020 | 125 | #1,651 | — | — |
| 2019 | 126 | #1,674 | — | — |
| 2018 | 154 | #1,439 | — | — |
| 2017 | 154 | #1,462 | — | — |
| 2016 | 159 | #1,452 | — | — |
| 2015 | 177 | #1,346 | — | — |
| 2014 | 157 | #1,452 | — | — |
| 2013 | 161 | #1,417 | — | — |
| 2012 | 147 | #1,514 | — | — |
| 2011 | 130 | #1,649 | — | — |
| 2010 | 147 | #1,525 | — | — |
| 2009 | 140 | #1,605 | — | — |
| 2008 | 149 | #1,553 | — | — |
| 2007 | 143 | #1,584 | — | — |
| 2006 | 160 | #1,421 | — | — |
| 2005 | 137 | #1,516 | — | — |
| 2004 | 130 | #1,539 | — | — |
| 2003 | 143 | #1,392 | — | — |
| 2002 | 126 | #1,505 | — | — |
| 2001 | 106 | #1,710 | — | — |
| 2000 | 124 | #1,484 | — | — |
| 1999 | 117 | #1,479 | — | — |
| 1998 | 127 | #1,364 | — | — |
| 1997 | 117 | #1,423 | — | — |
| 1996 | 123 | #1,374 | — | — |
| 1995 | 112 | #1,446 | — | — |
| 1994 | 121 | #1,374 | — | — |
| 1993 | 118 | #1,387 | — | — |
| 1992 | 126 | #1,333 | — | — |
| 1991 | 123 | #1,338 | — | — |
| 1990 | 115 | #1,377 | — | — |
| 1989 | 92 | #1,547 | — | — |
| 1988 | 98 | #1,423 | — | — |
| 1987 | 83 | #1,540 | — | — |
| 1986 | 99 | #1,335 | — | — |
| 1985 | 86 | #1,455 | — | — |
| 1984 | 80 | #1,455 | — | — |
| 1983 | 90 | #1,338 | — | — |
| 1982 | 111 | #1,212 | — | — |
| 1981 | 115 | #1,161 | — | — |
| 1980 | 83 | #1,466 | — | — |
| 1979 | 90 | #1,369 | — | — |
| 1978 | 87 | #1,361 | — | — |
| 1977 | 74 | #1,490 | — | — |
| 1976 | 73 | #1,439 | — | — |
| 1975 | 80 | #1,344 | — | — |
| 1974 | 50 | #1,790 | — | — |
| 1973 | 60 | #1,558 | — | — |
| 1972 | 47 | #1,816 | — | — |
| 1971 | 78 | #1,371 | — | — |
| 1970 | 61 | #1,579 | — | — |
| 1969 | 62 | #1,511 | — | — |
| 1968 | 56 | #1,528 | — | — |
| 1967 | 52 | #1,575 | — | — |
| 1966 | 64 | #1,375 | — | — |
| 1965 | 71 | #1,284 | — | — |
| 1964 | 78 | #1,250 | — | — |
| 1963 | 69 | #1,337 | — | — |
| 1962 | 81 | #1,228 | — | — |
| 1961 | 74 | #1,293 | — | — |
| 1960 | 75 | #1,274 | — | — |
| 1959 | 82 | #1,180 | — | — |
| 1958 | 80 | #1,193 | — | — |
| 1957 | 93 | #1,089 | — | — |
| 1956 | 96 | #1,047 | — | — |
| 1955 | 103 | #987 | — | — |
| 1954 | 104 | #948 | — | — |
| 1953 | 107 | #910 | — | — |
| 1952 | 104 | #909 | — | — |
| 1951 | 113 | #844 | — | — |
| 1950 | 108 | #853 | — | — |
| 1949 | 105 | #858 | — | — |
| 1948 | 102 | #864 | — | — |
| 1947 | 99 | #888 | — | — |
| 1946 | 106 | #803 | — | — |
| 1945 | 101 | #745 | — | — |
| 1944 | 70 | #922 | — | — |
| 1943 | 86 | #840 | — | — |
| 1942 | 63 | #987 | — | — |
| 1941 | 44 | #1,126 | — | — |
| 1940 | 46 | #1,069 | — | — |
| 1939 | 37 | #1,208 | — | — |
| 1938 | 33 | #1,280 | — | — |
| 1937 | 21 | #1,710 | — | — |
| 1936 | 20 | #1,720 | — | — |
| 1935 | 27 | #1,431 | — | — |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,963 | — | — |
| 1933 | 25 | #1,499 | — | — |
| 1932 | 19 | #1,850 | — | — |
| 1931 | 20 | #1,781 | — | — |
| 1930 | 13 | #2,495 | — | — |
| 1929 | 17 | #2,059 | — | — |
| 1928 | 16 | #2,247 | — | — |
| 1927 | 23 | #1,798 | — | — |
| 1926 | 19 | #2,043 | — | — |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,338 | — | — |
| 1924 | 25 | #1,746 | — | — |
| 1923 | 24 | #1,756 | — | — |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,536 | — | — |
| 1921 | 25 | #1,747 | — | — |
| 1920 | 24 | #1,728 | — | — |
| 1919 | 42 | #1,149 | — | — |
| 1918 | 53 | #993 | — | — |
| 1917 | 43 | #1,093 | — | — |
| 1916 | 47 | #1,008 | — | — |
| 1915 | 39 | #1,086 | — | — |
| 1914 | 28 | #1,165 | — | — |
| 1913 | 42 | #815 | — | — |
| 1912 | 35 | #854 | — | — |
| 1911 | 16 | #1,145 | — | — |
| 1910 | 15 | #1,189 | — | — |
| 1909 | 17 | #1,005 | — | — |
| 1908 | 12 | #1,241 | — | — |
| 1907 | 11 | #1,251 | — | — |
| 1906 | 10 | #1,274 | — | — |
| 1905 | 12 | #1,135 | — | — |
| 1904 | 14 | #983 | — | — |
| 1903 | 13 | #1,006 | — | — |
| 1902 | 9 | #1,272 | — | — |
| 1901 | 10 | #1,105 | — | — |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,511 | — | — |
| 1898 | 7 | #1,446 | — | — |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,608 | — | — |
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).