Kelinda
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Kelinda has been given to 23 babies in the U.S. since 1968. 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 1968, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Kelinda, 1981
1 in 692,000
Kelinda 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Kelinda?
Kelinda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1981, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1981
- 1 in 692,000
- 5 of 3,459,130 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 334,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1981
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 479,538 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Kelinda sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1981 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 479,538 children born in 1981 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Kelinda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Kelindas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Kelinda was born before 1974 — so the typical Kelinda is around 51 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 47.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 23
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 47.8% of all recorded uses (11).
Is Kelinda 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1968 (7)
- Years since peak
- 57
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Kelinda
Kelinda is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 80.9% against Kelinda'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.
Kelinda around the world
Where Kelinda 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.
- France2014–2014#7,498in 2014
- South Australia1966–1984#661in 1984
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.
Kelinda by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Kelinda
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Kelinda
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.