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Deolinda

Girls' name

Variant of Teodolinda

Deolinda has been given to 243 babies in the U.S. since 1912. 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 1923, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Deolinda, 1971

1 in 686,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Deolinda: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Teodolinda

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Deolinda means

Deolinda is a variant of Teodolinda.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Deolinda is used in Portuguese and Spanish.

Origin, language, and formation

Deolinda is used in Portuguese.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Teodolinda.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Deolinda is pronounced /de.oˈlĩ.dɐ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 243 girls were recorded with the name Deolinda between 1912 and 1971. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1923; its best national rank was #1,959 in 1923.

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 Deolinda?

Deolinda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1971, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1971
1 in 686,000
5 of 3,432,187 births
Among girls only
1 in 333,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1971
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
475,803 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Deolinda 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 1971 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 475,803 children born in 1971 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Deolinda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Deolindas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Deolinda was born before 1923 — so the typical Deolinda is around 102 today.

Median birth year
1923
About 102 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
52.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
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1920s — 52.7% of all recorded uses (128).

Is Deolinda 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 1923 (20)
Years since peak
102
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,959
1923

Spellings of Deolinda

Deolinda is not the most common spelling — Melinda is, with 58.2% against Deolinda's 0.10%.

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 Deolinda is used

Across 1910–2025, Deolinda was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 27,007 across all states with data.

44 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 25,000

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. Deolinda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Deolinda around the world

Where Deolinda 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
    1965–1995
    #3,670
    in 1995

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Deolinda 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
#1,959
1923
Peak year
1923
20 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
1971
All-time count
243
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Deolinda

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

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Sibling names for Deolinda

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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