Kalinda
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kalinda has been given to 404 babies in the U.S. since 1966. 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 1982, with 23 recorded.
Babies named Kalinda, 2018
1 in 391,000
Kalinda over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Kalinda?
Kalinda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2018
- 1 in 391,000
- 9 of 3,516,853 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 189,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2018
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 270,856 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kalinda sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 270,856 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kalinda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kalindas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kalinda was born before 1991 — so the typical Kalinda is around 34 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 34.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 43.8%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 404
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 34.9% of all recorded uses (141).
Is Kalinda 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 1982 (23)
- Years since peak
- 43
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.0% average annual change
Spellings of Kalinda
Kalinda is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 77.4% against Kalinda's 0.02%.
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.
Kalinda around the world
Where Kalinda 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.
- France2004–2021#7,245in 2021
- South Australia1963–2000#727in 2000
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.
Kalinda by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kalinda
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kalinda
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.