Meaning not yet researched.
Lynda: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 30 in 2025. Its best rank was #77 in 1947.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #77 in 1947; #4,619 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Lynda in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,619 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1947, at #77.
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Lynda: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 30 girls in 2025. Peak: #77 in 1947 · most girls in one year: 4,840 (1947).
In 2025, 30 US girls were named Lynda, making it the 4,619th most common girls’ name of the year, up 5,361 places from #9,980 in 2024. That is 20 more than the 10 girls named Lynda in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #77, reached in 1947. That year also had the most girls given the name: 4,840. For comparison, it was #4,196 in 2015 and #107 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Lynda in 129 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 5 babies. In all, 78,098 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1940s, with 28,010 babies named Lynda.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 275 US girls were named Lynda; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 36. In 2025 that was about 1 in 53,576 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Linda (1,458,899 babies since 1880), Mila (84,577 babies since 1880) and Erlinda (4,656 babies since 1880).
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 French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
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 Lynda 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 | 30 | #4,619 | — | — |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,980 | — | — |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,498 | — | — |
| 2022 | 30 | #4,635 | — | — |
| 2021 | 33 | #4,296 | — | — |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,769 | — | — |
| 2019 | 36 | #4,047 | — | — |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,416 | — | — |
| 2017 | 35 | #4,195 | — | — |
| 2016 | 33 | #4,401 | — | — |
| 2015 | 35 | #4,196 | — | — |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,877 | — | — |
| 2013 | 40 | #3,822 | — | — |
| 2012 | 46 | #3,505 | — | — |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,976 | — | — |
| 2010 | 45 | #3,551 | — | — |
| 2009 | 48 | #3,442 | — | — |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,740 | — | — |
| 2007 | 55 | #3,155 | — | — |
| 2006 | 83 | #2,299 | — | — |
| 2005 | 73 | #2,423 | — | — |
| 2004 | 64 | #2,616 | — | — |
| 2003 | 69 | #2,401 | — | — |
| 2002 | 63 | #2,515 | — | — |
| 2001 | 73 | #2,225 | — | — |
| 2000 | 88 | #1,931 | — | — |
| 1999 | 89 | #1,796 | — | — |
| 1998 | 83 | #1,859 | — | — |
| 1997 | 79 | #1,874 | — | — |
| 1996 | 81 | #1,818 | — | — |
| 1995 | 104 | #1,512 | — | — |
| 1994 | 110 | #1,450 | — | — |
| 1993 | 129 | #1,310 | — | — |
| 1992 | 96 | #1,606 | — | — |
| 1991 | 139 | #1,231 | — | — |
| 1990 | 148 | #1,167 | — | — |
| 1989 | 140 | #1,172 | — | — |
| 1988 | 146 | #1,081 | — | — |
| 1987 | 170 | #952 | — | — |
| 1986 | 190 | #874 | — | — |
| 1985 | 200 | #818 | — | — |
| 1984 | 225 | #729 | — | — |
| 1983 | 242 | #705 | — | — |
| 1982 | 333 | #556 | — | — |
| 1981 | 335 | #556 | — | — |
| 1980 | 312 | #596 | — | — |
| 1979 | 266 | #657 | — | — |
| 1978 | 306 | #567 | — | — |
| 1977 | 289 | #597 | — | — |
| 1976 | 297 | #564 | — | — |
| 1975 | 336 | #524 | — | — |
| 1974 | 360 | #488 | — | — |
| 1973 | 436 | #439 | 8 | #3,930 |
| 1972 | 531 | #390 | — | — |
| 1971 | 679 | #358 | — | — |
| 1970 | 849 | #319 | — | — |
| 1969 | 1,015 | #279 | — | — |
| 1968 | 1,115 | #245 | 6 | #3,970 |
| 1967 | 1,147 | #247 | — | — |
| 1966 | 1,309 | #230 | — | — |
| 1965 | 1,605 | #207 | — | — |
| 1964 | 1,985 | #188 | — | — |
| 1963 | 1,590 | #214 | 5 | #4,408 |
| 1962 | 1,768 | #204 | — | — |
| 1961 | 2,038 | #187 | — | — |
| 1960 | 2,122 | #183 | — | — |
| 1959 | 2,024 | #181 | 9 | #2,965 |
| 1958 | 1,741 | #195 | 5 | #4,293 |
| 1957 | 1,814 | #195 | — | — |
| 1956 | 1,759 | #193 | — | — |
| 1955 | 1,885 | #178 | — | — |
| 1954 | 2,023 | #173 | 7 | #3,335 |
| 1953 | 2,305 | #154 | 6 | #3,650 |
| 1952 | 2,812 | #129 | — | — |
| 1951 | 3,026 | #116 | 6 | #3,582 |
| 1950 | 3,300 | #107 | 9 | #2,703 |
| 1949 | 3,830 | #93 | — | — |
| 1948 | 4,167 | #84 | 7 | #3,195 |
| 1947 | 4,840 | #77 | 10 | #2,602 |
| 1946 | 3,000 | #109 | 6 | #3,390 |
| 1945 | 2,469 | #111 | 10 | #2,337 |
| 1944 | 2,370 | #113 | — | — |
| 1943 | 2,413 | #115 | 9 | #2,666 |
| 1942 | 2,107 | #132 | 8 | #2,849 |
| 1941 | 1,489 | #153 | 8 | #2,794 |
| 1940 | 1,267 | #165 | — | — |
| 1939 | 764 | #220 | — | — |
| 1938 | 540 | #272 | — | — |
| 1937 | 300 | #371 | — | — |
| 1936 | 203 | #447 | — | — |
| 1935 | 110 | #619 | — | — |
| 1934 | 77 | #766 | — | — |
| 1933 | 68 | #811 | — | — |
| 1932 | 58 | #929 | — | — |
| 1931 | 46 | #1,035 | — | — |
| 1930 | 29 | #1,448 | — | — |
| 1929 | 39 | #1,207 | — | — |
| 1928 | 44 | #1,154 | — | — |
| 1927 | 24 | #1,754 | — | — |
| 1926 | 30 | #1,501 | — | — |
| 1925 | 29 | #1,558 | — | — |
| 1924 | 22 | #1,906 | — | — |
| 1923 | 28 | #1,574 | — | — |
| 1922 | 25 | #1,707 | — | — |
| 1921 | 22 | #1,899 | — | — |
| 1920 | 19 | #2,043 | — | — |
| 1919 | 17 | #2,123 | — | — |
| 1918 | 24 | #1,669 | — | — |
| 1917 | 16 | #2,156 | — | — |
| 1916 | 23 | #1,618 | — | — |
| 1915 | 18 | #1,848 | — | — |
| 1914 | 15 | #1,788 | — | — |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,728 | — | — |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,790 | — | — |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,703 | — | — |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,308 | — | — |
| 1909 | 12 | #1,257 | — | — |
| 1908 | 6 | #2,006 | — | — |
| 1907 | 12 | #1,185 | — | — |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,862 | — | — |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,714 | — | — |
| 1898 | 8 | #1,332 | — | — |
| 1896 | 9 | #1,175 | — | — |
| 1895 | 7 | #1,378 | — | — |
| 1893 | 9 | #1,062 | — | — |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,380 | — | — |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,230 | — | — |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,104 | — | — |
| 1882 | 5 | #988 | — | — |
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).