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How popular is “Linda” in the USA?

Number of people named “Linda” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Linda” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Linda” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Linda” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Linda” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Linda” by birth year

This chart shows how “Linda” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 27 0.000134006 27 100%
1881 38 0.00019721 38 100%
1882 36 0.000162504 36 100%
1883 49 0.000225863 49 100%
1884 33 0.000135545 33 100%
1885 60 0.000249114 60 100%
1886 49 0.000191919 49 100%
1887 50 0.000202108 50 100%
1888 77 0.000257117 77 100%
1889 74 0.000256103 74 100%
1890 54 0.000179163 54 100%
1891 78 0.000272087 78 100%
1892 83 0.000248225 83 100%
1893 82 0.000252135 82 100%
1894 94 0.00027754 94 100%
1895 96 0.000273489 96 100%
1896 104 0.000290922 104 100%
1897 81 0.000233458 81 100%
1898 102 0.000267397 102 100%
1899 98 0.000288886 98 100%
1900 125 0.000277619 125 100%
1901 86 0.00024869 86 100%
1902 91 0.000235304 91 100%
1903 90 0.000236097 90 100%
1904 101 0.000250319 101 100%
1905 105 0.000247687 105 100%
1906 98 0.000228731 98 100%
1907 102 0.000219171 102 100%
1908 93 0.000190321 93 100%
1909 105 0.000205389 105 100%
1910 137 0.000231924 137 100%
1911 130 0.000201776 130 100%
1912 189 0.000191284 189 100%
1913 238 0.000209303 238 100%
1914 219 0.000154623 219 100%
1915 290 0.00015826 290 100%
1916 297 0.000153535 297 100%
1917 291 0.000145011 291 100%
1918 322 0.000148311 322 100%
1919 282 0.000133634 282 100%
1920 348 0.000153802 348 100%
1921 367 0.000157207 367 100%
1922 365 0.000159447 365 100%
1923 423 0.000183715 423 100%
1924 454 0.000190627 454 100%
1925 444 0.000190288 438 6 97%
1926 480 0.000209068 480 100%
1927 516 0.000222475 516 100%
1928 555 0.000245473 555 100%
1929 516 0.000235384 509 7 97%
1930 492 0.000221294 492 100%
1931 535 0.000254231 535 100%
1932 779 0.000368969 774 5 99%
1933 791 0.000395609 782 9 98%
1934 1000 0.000481506 1000 100%
1935 1207 0.00057754 1197 10 98%
1936 2449 0.001178776 2440 9 99%
1937 4397 0.00206367 4378 19 99%
1938 7075 0.003197633 7047 28 99%
1939 10757 0.004881908 10713 44 99%
1940 18428 0.008002832 18369 59 99%
1941 23801 0.009768821 23721 80 99%
1942 31735 0.011616806 31614 121 99%
1943 38576 0.01366703 38439 137 99%
1944 38529 0.014322627 38415 114 99%
1945 41576 0.015671847 41465 111 99%
1946 52825 0.016532058 52710 115 100%
1947 99909 0.027734611 99693 216 100%
1948 96423 0.027928311 96216 207 100%
1949 91185 0.026166676 91016 169 100%
1950 80561 0.022995366 80431 130 100%
1951 74107 0.020117331 73982 125 100%
1952 67218 0.01769824 67081 137 100%
1953 61395 0.015931673 61281 114 100%
1954 55487 0.013938977 55371 116 100%
1955 51404 0.012802734 51300 104 100%
1956 48192 0.011688472 48085 107 100%
1957 44635 0.010621961 44515 120 99%
1958 42000 0.010159887 41905 95 100%
1959 40533 0.009748215 40412 121 99%
1960 37411 0.009006419 37315 96 99%
1961 35678 0.008613087 35592 86 100%
1962 31548 0.007817866 31463 85 99%
1963 27808 0.007025416 27723 85 99%
1964 23725 0.006102729 23632 93 99%
1965 19406 0.005352716 19343 63 99%
1966 15617 0.004493254 15564 53 99%
1967 13229 0.003896731 13196 33 100%
1968 11412 0.003377917 11371 41 99%
1969 10295 0.002962315 10246 49 99%
1970 8768 0.002431157 8730 38 99%
1971 7403 0.002156828 7376 27 99%
1972 5776 0.001837738 5743 33 99%
1973 4751 0.001574802 4731 20 99%
1974 4098 0.001348027 4077 21 99%
1975 3542 0.001173083 3522 20 99%
1976 3150 0.001038131 3138 12 99%
1977 2934 0.00092366 2912 22 99%
1978 2945 0.000927889 2930 15 99%
1979 2756 0.000828374 2740 16 99%
1980 2824 0.000819856 2806 18 99%
1981 2744 0.000793207 2729 15 99%
1982 2810 0.000801035 2791 19 99%
1983 2500 0.000721847 2476 24 98%
1984 2348 0.000673019 2336 12 99%
1985 2127 0.000595947 2115 12 99%
1986 1971 0.000554106 1950 21 98%
1987 1946 0.000539714 1931 15 98%
1988 1854 0.000501753 1845 9 99%
1989 1862 0.000484335 1845 17 98%
1990 1672 0.000423026 1661 11 99%
1991 1618 0.000415376 1608 10 99%
1992 1594 0.000414967 1582 12 98%
1993 1495 0.000396522 1488 7 99%
1994 1295 0.000348338 1284 11 98%
1995 1234 0.00033696 1234 100%
1996 987 0.000270619 987 100%
1997 1099 0.00030311 1099 100%
1998 972 0.000264259 972 100%
1999 900 0.000243647 900 100%
2000 851 0.000225138 851 100%
2001 839 0.000224128 839 100%
2002 773 0.000206779 773 100%
2003 741 0.000194881 741 100%
2004 731 0.000191315 731 100%
2005 754 0.000196107 754 100%
2006 700 0.000176938 700 100%
2007 662 0.000165596 662 100%
2008 614 0.000156208 614 100%
2009 553 0.000144758 553 100%
2010 480 0.000129879 480 100%
2011 490 0.000133961 490 100%
2012 450 0.000123039 450 100%
2013 447 0.000122611 447 100%
2014 475 0.000128158 475 100%
2015 429 0.000115917 429 100%
2016 443 0.000120751 443 100%
2017 409 0.000114367 409 100%
2018 398 0.0001132 398 100%
2019 362 0.000104295 362 100%
2020 334 0.000099983 334 100%
2021 327 0.000096519 327 100%
2022 352 0.000104046 352 100%
2023 324 0.00009785 324 100%
2024 321 0.00009644 321 100%

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