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Delinda

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Delinda has been given to 2,210 babies in the U.S. since 1917. 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 1964, with 117 recorded.

Babies named Delinda, 2012

1 in 732,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Delinda: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Delinda means

Delinda is a given name.

The naming story behind Delinda

Wikidata records Delinda as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q123587641, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,210 girls were recorded with the name Delinda between 1917 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 117 in 1964; its best national rank was #960 in 1965.

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.

How common is Delinda?

Delinda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,590 births
Among girls only
1 in 352,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2012
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,051 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Delinda 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 2012 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 507,051 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Delinda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Delindas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Delinda was born before 1963 — so the typical Delinda is around 62 today.

Median birth year
1963
About 62 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
40.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,973
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 40.8% of all recorded uses (901).

Is Delinda 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 1964 (117)
Years since peak
61
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#960
1965

Spellings of Delinda

Delinda is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 77.7% against Delinda's 0.12%.

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 Delinda is used

Across 1910–2025, Delinda was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 153,510 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 50,000
  2. 2Alabama1 in 100,000
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 100,000
  4. 4California1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Georgia1 in —
  7. 7Iowa1 in —
  8. 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. Delinda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Delinda around the world

Where Delinda 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.

  • France
    1976–2021
    #6,420
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1969–1972
    #722
    in 1972

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Delinda 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
#960
1965
Peak year
1964
117 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
2,210
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Delinda

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

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Names with a curve like Delinda

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Delinda, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Delinda

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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