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Erlinda

Girls' name

Form of Herlinde

Erlinda has been given to 4,656 babies in the U.S. since 1900. 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 171 recorded.

Babies named Erlinda, 2023

1 in 331,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Erlinda: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Herlinde

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Erlinda means

Erlinda is a form of Herlinde.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Erlinda is used in Spanish (Philippines) and Spanish (Latin American).

Origin, language, and formation

Erlinda is used in Cebuano.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Herlinde.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,656 girls were recorded with the name Erlinda between 1900 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 171 in 1949; its best national rank was #631 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 Erlinda?

Erlinda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 331,000
10 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 160,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
229,764 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Erlinda 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 2023 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 229,764 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Erlinda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Erlindas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Erlinda was born before 1951 — so the typical Erlinda is around 74 today.

Median birth year
1951
About 74 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
21.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,481
People you could plausibly meet
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1950s — 21.3% of all recorded uses (991).

Is Erlinda 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 1949 (171)
Years since peak
76
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#631
1949

Spellings of Erlinda

Erlinda is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 83.7% against Erlinda's 0.27%.

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 Erlinda is used

Across 1910–2025, Erlinda was most concentrated in New Mexico — about 1 in 1,351 girls, against 1 in 9,440 across all states with data. It was least common in Colorado (1 in 50,000).

274 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Mexico1 in 1,351
  2. 2Arizona1 in 5,882
  3. 3Texas1 in 10,000
  4. 4California1 in 12,500
  5. 5Hawaii1 in 16,667
  6. 6Colorado1 in 50,000

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

Notable people named Erlinda

People whose public names include Erlinda, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Erlinda in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Erlinda. Linked forms have their own page here.

MilaLindaLyndaLudmilaLudmillaLyudmilaMerlindaMirlindaErlinaLudmiłaLiudmilaLjudmila

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Erlinda 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
#631
1949
Peak year
1949
171 that year
First recorded
1900
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
4,656
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Erlinda

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

MyrandaLorindaJacindaHerlindaBriandaMarandaDorindaTawandaYolondaErleneCelindaLavondaBrindaMalindaRolandaMalyndaFlorindaMerandaRandaIrlandaMelyndaErlineShawndaRosenda

Names with a curve like Erlinda

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

OraliaMickeyMaritaEvonCharleenPhillisKathaleenMarileeJerrieDarleenNancieVonnie

Sibling names for Erlinda

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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