Linda
Top 1000
About Linda
Linda will live forever in baby name history for toppling Mary from its four hundred year reign as Number 1. Queen of Names in 1947, Linda has fallen even further in favor than Mary today.
Still, Linda continues to hang on in the US Top 1000, and many contemporary baby namers might consider Linda as an honor name, in middle place or as a starting point for names such as Melinda or Linden. And in some European countries, Linda still ranks high on the popularity charts.
As of October 2026, Linda ranked #902 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #1 in 1950, Nameberry popularity #439.
Editor's take: The name Linda is a girl's name of Spanish, Italian, Portuguese origin meaning "pretty".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #612 | 475 | 265.9 |
| 2015 | #666 | 429 | 240.3 |
| 2016 | #665 | 443 | 250 |
| 2017 | #704 | 409 | 236.9 |
| 2018 | #718 | 398 | 234 |
| 2019 | #769 | 362 | 215.7 |
| 2020 | #815 | 334 | 206.6 |
| 2021 | #845 | 327 | 199.3 |
| 2022 | #802 | 352 | 214.6 |
| 2023 | #841 | 324 | 201.9 |
| 2024 | #835 | 321 | 198.1 |
| 2025 | #902 | 294 | 182.9 |
World rankings
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Linda on lists
Famous Lindas
- Linda Darnell (born Monetta Eloyse Darnell)
American actress
- Linda Maria Ronstadt
American singer
- Linda Evans
American actress
- Linda Ann Gray
American actress
- Linda Denise Blair
American actress
- Linda Edna Cardellini
American actress
- Linda Diane Thompson
American actress, girlfriend of Elvis Presley, ex,wife of Caitlyn (formally Bruce) Jenner
- Linda Hunt (born Lydia Susanna Hunter)
American actress
- Linda Perry
producer and lead singer of American band 4 Non Blondes
- Linda Carroll Hamilton
American actress
- Linda Rosenkrantz
author and cofounder of Nameberry
- Linda Moulton Howe
American investigative reporter
- Linda Louise Eastman McCartney
American photographer, musician and wife of musician Paul McCartney
- Linda Marie McMahon
American pro wrestling magnate and politician
- Linda Evangelista
Canadian supermodel
- Linda Harvey Wild
American tennis player
- Linda Lavin
American actress
- Linda T. Sánchez
American Congresswoman from California
- Linda Lee Cadwell
widow of martial arts actor Bruce Lee
- Linda (born Svetlana Lvovna Geiman)
Russian singer
- Linda Bove
American deaf actress ("Sesame Street")
- Linda Rose Tripp
former U.S. Pentagon employee and figure in the Monica Lewinsky scandal
- Linda Chung
Hong Kong actress
- Linda Susan Agar
elder daughter of child star Shirley Temple
- Linda Holmes
American radio host
- Linda Fiorentino
Italian American actress
Linda in pop culture
- Linda
wife of Kalev in Estonian national epic "Kalevipoeg"
- Linda Lee Danvers aka Supergirl (born Kara Zor
El), character in Superman comics
- Linda Fahlstrom
character in the Bert Diaries series
- Linda "Lindy" Owens
character in "Beastly" by Alex Flinn
- Linda Cleary
character in movie "Black Market Baby"
- Linda Belcher
character in animated series Bob's Burgers
- Linda Twist
character in Australian TV's "Round the Twist"
- Linda Perelli
character in "Widows"
- Linda Flynn
Fletcher, mother in animated series "Phineas and Ferb"
- Linda Sinclair
character from movie "The English Teacher" played by Julianne Moore
- Linda Radlett
character in Nancy Mitford's "Pursuit of Love"
- Linda Arden
also known as Caroline Hubbard, character in Hercule Poirot series
- Linda
character TV's "Sesame Street" played by Linda Bove
- Linda Gunderson
character in animated movie "Rio"
- Linda van Schoonhoven
news anchor in the animated series "Futurama"
- Linda Stotch
mother of Butters in animated series "South Park"
- Linda Clarke
character in British soap "EastEnders"
- Linda Carter
character in British soap "EastEnders"
- Linda Cheveski
character on British soap "Coronation Street"
- Linda Park aka Dr. Light
character in The Flash comics and TV show
- Linda Tanner
a detective on TV's "Pretty Little Liars"
- "Linda di Chamounix
" opera by Gaetano Donizetti
- Dr. Linda Martin
character on the TV series "Lucifer"
- Linda Lanyard
character on TV's Call the midwife
- Linda
character in "The Conjuring" series
- Linda the teacher
character in the 2008 film "Role Models" played by Jessica Morris