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Herlinda

#7,624 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Herlinda has been given to 4,410 babies in the U.S. since 1892. In 2025 it ranked #7,624 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1952, with 128 recorded.

Babies named Herlinda, 2025

1 in 237,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Herlinda: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Herlinda means

Herlinda is a given name.

The naming story behind Herlinda

Wikidata records Herlinda as a given name. The entity identifier is Q61954181, 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, 4,410 girls were recorded with the name Herlinda between 1892 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 128 in 1952; its best national rank was #800 in 1952.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,471 in 2020 to #7,624 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,403 in 2015 to #7,624 in 2025.

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 Herlinda?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 115,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,624
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Herlinda 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 2025 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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Herlinda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Herlindas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Herlinda was born before 1953 — so the typical Herlinda is around 72 today.

Median birth year
1953
About 72 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
21.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,629
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Choose a decade

1950s — 21.1% of all recorded uses (932).

Is Herlinda 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
+508
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,847
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,779
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.40×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.9%
Peak was 1952 (128)
Years since peak
73
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#800
1952

Spellings of Herlinda

Herlinda is not the most common spelling — Melinda is, with 57.9% against Herlinda's 1.9%.

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 Herlinda is used

Across 1910–2025, Herlinda was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 4,762 girls, against 1 in 11,253 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

021 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 4,762
  2. 2California1 in 20,000
  3. 3Arizona1 in 33,333
  4. 4New Mexico1 in 100,000
  5. 5Illinois1 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. Herlinda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Herlinda by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,624
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,847
Best rank ever
#800
1952
Peak year
1952
128 that year
First recorded
1892
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,410
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Herlinda

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

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Names with a curve like Herlinda

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

MaritaEvonKathaleenJohnnyLaureneKathernOraliaArnettaJayPhillisAletaRaye

Sibling names for Herlinda

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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