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Carlinda

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Carlinda has been given to 89 babies in the U.S. since 1948. 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 1968, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Carlinda, 1989

1 in 768,000

Carlinda over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Carlinda: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Carlinda means

Carlinda is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Carlinda is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 89 girls were recorded with the name Carlinda between 1948 and 1989. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1968; its best national rank was #4,286 in 1949.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Carlinda?

Carlinda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1989, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1989
1 in 768,000
5 of 3,842,268 births
Among girls only
1 in 368,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1989
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
532,653 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Carlinda sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1989 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 532,653 children born in 1989 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Carlinda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Carlindas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Carlinda was born before 1964 — so the typical Carlinda is around 61 today.

Median birth year
1964
About 61 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
28.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
49.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
77
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 28.1% of all recorded uses (25).

Is Carlinda 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1968 (8)
Years since peak
57
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,286
1949

Spellings of Carlinda

Carlinda is not the most common spelling — Carolina is, with 39.6% against Carlinda's 0.07%.

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.

Carlinda around the world

Where Carlinda 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.

  • South Australia
    1989–1989
    #692
    in 1989

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Carlinda by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,286
1949
Peak year
1968
8 that year
First recorded
1948
Last recorded
1989
All-time count
89
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Carlinda

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Carlinda

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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