Arlinda
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Arlinda has been given to 1,493 babies in the U.S. since 1939. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1949, with 72 recorded.
Babies named Arlinda, 2013
1 in 456,000
Arlinda over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Arlinda?
Arlinda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2013
- 1 in 456,000
- 8 of 3,645,938 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 219,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2013
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 315,898 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Arlinda sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2013 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 315,898 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arlinda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Arlindas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Arlinda was born before 1966 — so the typical Arlinda is around 59 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 26.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 13.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,271
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 26.5% of all recorded uses (395).
Is Arlinda rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1949 (72)
- Years since peak
- 76
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.3% average annual change
Spellings of Arlinda
Arlinda is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 80.7% against Arlinda's 0.08%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Arlinda is used
Across 1910–2025, Arlinda was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 378,525 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Arizona1 in 50,000
- 2Alabama1 in 100,000
- 3Georgia1 in 100,000
- 4New Mexico1 in 100,000
- 5California1 in —
- 6Florida1 in —
- 7Iowa1 in —
- 8Illinois1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Arlinda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Arlinda around the world
Where Arlinda ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2000–2003#3,594in 2003
- France1980–1980#2,946in 1980
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Arlinda by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Arlinda
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Arlinda
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.