Meaning not yet researched.
Linnie: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 14 in 2025. Its best rank was #189 in 1881.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #189 in 1881; #7,715 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Linnie in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,715 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1881, at #189.
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Linnie: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 14 girls in 2025. Peak: #189 in 1881 · most girls in one year: 180 (1921).
In 2025, 14 US girls were named Linnie, making it the 7,715th most common girls’ name of the year, up 97 places from #7,812 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 14 girls named Linnie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #189, reached in 1881. The most girls given the name in a single year was 180, in 1921. For comparison, it was #12,503 in 2015 and #1,218 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Linnie in 128 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 41 babies. In all, 8,709 US babies have been given the name, 92% of them girls and 8.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,499 babies named Linnie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 104 US girls were named Linnie; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 18. In 2025 that was about 1 in 114,805 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Linn (2,294 babies since 1880), Linnea (9,944 babies since 1880), Lennie (7,725 babies since 1880) and Leonie (2,231 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Lynnie, Lianni and Leannie 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Lynnie (365), Lianni (169), Leannie (79), Leonnie (24), Leanie (22), Liannie (11), Lianie (7), Lyanie (5), Lyannie (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 Linnie 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 | 14 | #7,715 | — | — |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,812 | — | — |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,563 | — | — |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,603 | — | — |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,774 | — | — |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,927 | — | — |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,177 | — | — |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,054 | — | — |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,183 | — | — |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,503 | — | — |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,424 | — | — |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,010 | — | — |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,318 | — | — |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,701 | — | — |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,813 | — | — |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,870 | — | — |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,777 | — | — |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,043 | — | — |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,613 | 5 | #8,709 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,855 | — | — |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,369 | 5 | #7,672 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,277 | — | — |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,058 | — | — |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,826 | — | — |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,718 | — | — |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,909 | — | — |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,809 | 5 | #6,880 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,361 | — | — |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,640 | 5 | #6,649 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,141 | — | — |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,714 | 7 | #4,920 |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,071 | 7 | #4,723 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,352 | 8 | #4,159 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,026 | — | — |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,395 | — | — |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,233 | 8 | #3,827 |
| 1971 | 20 | #3,321 | 8 | #3,827 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,511 | 7 | #4,085 |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,266 | 6 | #4,216 |
| 1968 | 18 | #3,118 | 7 | #3,546 |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,153 | 8 | #3,136 |
| 1966 | 15 | #3,338 | 8 | #3,146 |
| 1965 | 25 | #2,438 | 10 | #2,710 |
| 1964 | 14 | #3,620 | 10 | #2,765 |
| 1963 | 34 | #2,042 | 8 | #3,218 |
| 1962 | 33 | #2,052 | 12 | #2,456 |
| 1961 | 30 | #2,181 | 19 | #1,919 |
| 1960 | 36 | #1,910 | 14 | #2,270 |
| 1959 | 45 | #1,630 | 11 | #2,609 |
| 1958 | 36 | #1,837 | 15 | #2,138 |
| 1957 | 46 | #1,602 | 9 | #2,933 |
| 1956 | 39 | #1,708 | — | — |
| 1955 | 38 | #1,681 | 10 | #2,688 |
| 1954 | 47 | #1,476 | 14 | #2,168 |
| 1953 | 54 | #1,323 | 11 | #2,471 |
| 1952 | 67 | #1,169 | 11 | #2,450 |
| 1951 | 58 | #1,220 | 10 | #2,585 |
| 1950 | 58 | #1,218 | 10 | #2,519 |
| 1949 | 72 | #1,061 | 16 | #1,912 |
| 1948 | 64 | #1,120 | 15 | #1,990 |
| 1947 | 70 | #1,062 | 14 | #2,130 |
| 1946 | 55 | #1,158 | 10 | #2,489 |
| 1945 | 64 | #974 | 10 | #2,331 |
| 1944 | 79 | #860 | 12 | #2,141 |
| 1943 | 68 | #958 | 16 | #1,879 |
| 1942 | 77 | #894 | 11 | #2,338 |
| 1941 | 85 | #784 | 12 | #2,159 |
| 1940 | 85 | #757 | 9 | #2,596 |
| 1939 | 73 | #807 | 8 | #2,729 |
| 1938 | 88 | #732 | 5 | #3,823 |
| 1937 | 85 | #737 | 10 | #2,414 |
| 1936 | 82 | #735 | 8 | #2,766 |
| 1935 | 105 | #637 | 6 | #3,483 |
| 1934 | 79 | #752 | 8 | #2,861 |
| 1933 | 96 | #667 | 9 | #2,653 |
| 1932 | 104 | #661 | 9 | #2,758 |
| 1931 | 97 | #679 | 14 | #2,061 |
| 1930 | 109 | #660 | 12 | #2,388 |
| 1929 | 87 | #754 | 13 | #2,271 |
| 1928 | 124 | #632 | 12 | #2,474 |
| 1927 | 121 | #656 | 12 | #2,475 |
| 1926 | 124 | #649 | 6 | #4,002 |
| 1925 | 172 | #548 | 17 | #1,978 |
| 1924 | 136 | #642 | 7 | #3,700 |
| 1923 | 126 | #663 | 11 | #2,708 |
| 1922 | 145 | #596 | 10 | #2,923 |
| 1921 | 180 | #528 | 11 | #2,726 |
| 1920 | 173 | #542 | 12 | #2,540 |
| 1919 | 152 | #560 | 11 | #2,600 |
| 1918 | 176 | #524 | 8 | #3,265 |
| 1917 | 167 | #517 | 11 | #2,504 |
| 1916 | 178 | #477 | 10 | #2,657 |
| 1915 | 179 | #460 | 7 | #3,253 |
| 1914 | 120 | #509 | 8 | #2,561 |
| 1913 | 135 | #425 | — | — |
| 1912 | 122 | #425 | 5 | #2,752 |
| 1911 | 85 | #440 | — | — |
| 1910 | 85 | #432 | 8 | #1,267 |
| 1909 | 94 | #384 | 6 | #1,386 |
| 1908 | 105 | #351 | 10 | #926 |
| 1907 | 84 | #388 | — | — |
| 1906 | 74 | #400 | — | — |
| 1905 | 114 | #316 | — | — |
| 1904 | 85 | #356 | — | — |
| 1903 | 85 | #344 | 5 | #1,228 |
| 1902 | 91 | #328 | 7 | #984 |
| 1901 | 79 | #344 | 5 | #1,143 |
| 1900 | 113 | #313 | 7 | #1,122 |
| 1899 | 69 | #355 | 6 | #999 |
| 1898 | 87 | #335 | — | — |
| 1897 | 98 | #289 | — | — |
| 1896 | 81 | #324 | — | — |
| 1895 | 96 | #291 | — | — |
| 1894 | 78 | #316 | — | — |
| 1893 | 100 | #268 | — | — |
| 1892 | 104 | #259 | — | — |
| 1891 | 79 | #280 | — | — |
| 1890 | 83 | #274 | 5 | #1,092 |
| 1889 | 93 | #242 | — | — |
| 1888 | 95 | #238 | — | — |
| 1887 | 82 | #236 | — | — |
| 1886 | 74 | #240 | — | — |
| 1885 | 55 | #268 | — | — |
| 1884 | 74 | #220 | — | — |
| 1883 | 76 | #194 | — | — |
| 1882 | 41 | #273 | — | — |
| 1881 | 65 | #189 | — | — |
| 1880 | 41 | #242 | — | — |
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).