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Elinda

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Elinda has been given to 278 babies in the U.S. since 1942. 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 1953, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Elinda, 2019

1 in 694,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Elinda: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Elinda means

Elinda is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Elinda is used in Norwegian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 278 girls were recorded with the name Elinda between 1942 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 23 in 1953; its best national rank was #2,188 in 1953.

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 Elinda?

Elinda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 694,000
5 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 336,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
481,354 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Elinda 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 2019 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 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Elinda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Elindas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Elinda was born before 1954 — so the typical Elinda is around 71 today.

Median birth year
1954
About 71 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
39.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
212
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 39.2% of all recorded uses (109).

Is Elinda 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 1953 (23)
Years since peak
72
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,188
1953

Spellings of Elinda

Elinda is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 57.2% against Elinda's 0.01%.

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.

Elinda around the world

Where Elinda 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
    1979–2013
    #5,867
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    2003–2003
    #739
    in 2003

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.

Elinda 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
#2,188
1953
Peak year
1953
23 that year
First recorded
1942
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
278
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Elinda

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

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Sibling names for Elinda

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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